I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will ever tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on, I am your teacher. -Ender's Game

You can't defeat a powerful enemy unless you understand him completely, and you can't understand him unless you know the desires of his heart, and you can't kn…

War triggers human inventiveness at the most brilliant, because if you don't win your wars, your civilization disappears -Empire

We become one tribe because we say we're one tribe.

The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose …

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Amin didn't treat his enemies as ideological adversaries-only as a physical threat.