Selected enemy quotes

1. We need a common enemy to unite us.

2. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

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

4. A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

5. Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.

6. Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

7. This is our mission at home, to approach these future decisions without hesitation, to do our duty and to remain strong. We know the enemy, we have called him by name for the last twenty years: he is the World Jew. And we know that the Jew must die.

8. We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.

9. If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

10. 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 heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.

11. The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats.

12. For over five years this man has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could set on fire. Unfortunately he again and again finds hirelings who open the gates of their country to this international incendiary.

13. In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.

14. America is the great Satan, the wounded snake.

15. 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

16. It will at any rate be my supreme task to see to it that in the newly awakened NSDAP, the adherents of both Confessions can live peacefully together side by side in order that they may take their stand in the common fight against the power which is the mortal foe of any true Christianity.

17. When we were fighting communism, OK, they had mass murderers and gulags, but they were white men and they were sane. Now we're up against absolutely insane savages.

18. Either night or the Prussians will come.

19. Anybody who came under the spell of his personality turned into a real soldier. He seemed to know what the enemy were like and how they would react.

20. There is an enemy out there. They read newspapers.

21. We're facing a radical ideology with inalterable objectives: to enslave whole nations and intimidate the world. No act of ours invited the rage of the killers - and no concession, bribe, or act of appeasement would change or limit their plans for murder.

22. For we that fight till the world is free, We are not easy in victory: We have known each other too long, my brother, And fought each other, the world and we.

23. What I said was: 'Go boldly among the English,' and I went among them, too!

24. So the bastard's dead! Too bad we didn't capture him alive!

25. A Satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He owns no enemy.

26. The woman inside was important now. Perhaps the most important in the world. What she knew would help destroy an enemy when she told it. My hands in my pockets balled into hard knots to keep from shaking and for a moment the throbbing ache of the welts and cuts that laced my skin stopped.

27. 'To know the times' means to know the enemy's disposition in battle. Is is flourishing or waning? By observing the spirit of the enemy's men and getting the best position, you can work out the enemy's disposition and move your men accordingly.

28. In battles, when the armies are in confrontation, attack the enemy's strong points and, when you see that they are beaten back, quickly separate and attack yet another strong point on the periphery of his force. The spirit of this is like a winding mountain path. This is an important fighting method for one man against many. Strike down the enemies in one quarter, or drive them back, then grasp the timing and attack further strong points to right and left, as if on a winding mountain path, weighing up the enemies' disposition. When you know the enemies' level, attack strongly with no trace of retreating spirit.

29. Here's my throat. I carry no weapon. You could have killed me at any time, even when I knew you were my enemy. Why did you need to deceive me into trusting you first? Were you afraid that death wouldn't bother me enough, unless I felt betrayed?

30. 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 know the desires of his heart until you truly love him.

31. Fuyez un ennemi qui sait votre defaut.

32. Il est doux de perir apres ses ennemis.

33. Io i miei nemici li strangolo lentamente col guanto di velluto.

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

35. The real enemy is not outside, but inside. ... External enemies are not permanent; if you respect him, the enemy will become your friend. But there is one enemy who is always an enemy, whom you should never compromise, that is the enemy inside your heart. You cannot change all these bad thoughts into your friend, but you have to confront and control them.

36. My nearest And dearest enemy.

37. The hour has come; kill the Hun.

38. The Hun is either at your throat or at your feet.

39. 'What? The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy'

40. Hate your enemies Save your friends Find your place Speak the truth.

41. BAM! Set my plan in mode, time to exterminate my foes/I can't stand you hoes, uhh

42. Love your enemy, it'll scare the hell out of him.

43. I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement.

44. Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

45. Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.

46. As long as the enemy fights he must be beaten relentlessly, but a defeated enemy and especially the civilian population must be treated generously.

47. We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

48. The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrours, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

49. Der Mensch der Erkenntniss muss nicht nur seine Feinde lieben, er muss auch seine Freunde hassen konnen.

50. Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are, and probably more so. They are not supermen.

51. A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the State with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated by it as enemies.

52. Even the Russians are fighting us. They've brought in Jewish pilots, nurses, and doctors. Everybody's ganging up on us. We didn't think it would happen this way.

53. The enemy holds every trump card, covering all areas with long-range air patrols and using location methods against which we still have no warning...The enemy knows all our secrets and we know none of his.

54. To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement ... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus ... thereby it becomes its enemies.

55. That sweet enemy, France.