Enemy Quotes

I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.

~ Deborah Tannen

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

~ Orson Welles

People forget how dominant Public Enemy became in the mid '80s. No one talks about how transformative they were. And then that led to the '90s and the sort of East Coast v. West Coast stuff, which is kinda when I came of age.

~ Marco Rubio

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

~ Pierre Corneille

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

~ Jules Verne

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

~ Arthur Erickson

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

~ Bono

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

~ Warren Buffett

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

~ William Butler Yeats

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

~ Betty Friedan

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

~ Susan B. Anthony

The best is the enemy of the good.

~ Voltaire

Better is the enemy of good.

~ Voltaire

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

~ Pablo Picasso

Time is my greatest enemy.

~ Evita Peron

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

~ James A. Baldwin

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

~ Saul Alinsky

The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.

~ John Young

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

~ George Washington

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

~ J. Paul Getty

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

~ Sterling Hayden

Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.

~ Joel Osteen

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

~ Claude Adrien Helvétius

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

~ Sun Tzu

If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.

~ Monica Crowley

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

~ Henrik Ibsen

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

~ Socrates

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

~ Virgil

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

~ Stokely Carmichael

I'm always ready for the enemy to come over the hill. I'm packed and set to go. That comes from my time in the army. I used to travel in a tank, but now it's a tour bus going to safer places.

~ James Blunt

Reason is the enemy of faith.

~ Martin Luther

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

~ Olin Miller

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

~ Ian Mcewan

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

~ Bela Lugosi

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

~ Isaac Newton

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

~ Brian Mulroney

A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.

~ Lysander Spooner

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

~ Arthur Ashe