Best 3424 quotes in «enemy quotes» category

Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments.

Two things distinguish nonviolent actions from violent actions. First, you don't see an enemy and second, your intention is not to make the other side suffer.

Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He'd leave you alone if he thought you were going to live in mediocrity. If you keep pressing on toward your promise, through faith and patience, you will get there.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.

Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.

Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.

Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.

US wars are going to be against much weaker enemies. And they have to be won quickly and decisively before a popular reaction develops.

Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

Victory Consistently, train all year to be the enemy's misery!

Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who might otherwise support the movement.

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.

Vladimir Putin devastates and destroys his enemies. He's been devastating and destroying the Syrian people. And Hillary Clinton spoke out against that. She had the courage to do that.

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press.

Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain, but „til then he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.

Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the smoke rising above the Pentagon.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

We all have to pick our battles. You've got to draw a line in the sand and stand firm. And it's this squishiness that's really the enemy, like, "Well, I don't know, it's kind of OK but I kind of feel guilty, and I kind of want a bran muffin, I don't know, and I'm wearing a vest; it's crocheted." Shut up. Just pick your battle and just stand there, and whatever you are going to do, own it.

We are blood-secured, delivered from the enemy’s power, and raised up into newness of life in God.

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.

We are brothers and sisters; not enemies. It is not the will of God that countrymen go to war against one another.

We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the end of the capitalistic experiment. Once we came to understand the simpl...truth that earth's resources were limited, in fact soon to run out, the whole capitalistic illusion fell to pieces. Those of us who spoke this truth were denounced as heretics, as enemies of the prevailing economic faith. Like religious Dissenters of an earlier day.

We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil. With him never be reconciled! But with a brother, never be at enmity in thy heart.

We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland.

We are servants of Ma’at—order and justice. We don’t kill our enemies for things they might do in the future.

We are not in a position to criticize anyone. The existence of enemies means for us that our friendliness has not been sufficient enough.

We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful results. . . . The British State considers it the duty of an Englishman to kill people who are not English whenever a collection of elderly gentlemen in Westminster tells him to do so. . . . Church and State are placable enemies of both intelligence and virtue.

We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.

We become our own enemy when we are thrown out of balance by anger, hatred, grief, or any other intense emotion. We are for the time being obsessed by something alien.

We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength.

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.

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

We can't afford to be innocent, stand up and face the enemy. It's a do or die situation, we will be invincible.

We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.