#Enemy Quotes

“I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.”

“We do not war with races primarily as such. Tyranny is our foe. Whatever trapping or disguise it wears, whatever language it speaks, be it external or internal, we must for ever be on our guard, ever mobilized, ever vigilant, always ready to spring at its throat. In all this we march together. Not only do we march and strive shoulder to shoulder at this moment, under the fire of the enemy on the fields of war or in the air, but also in those realms of thought which are consecrated to the rights and the dignity of man.”

“We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.”

“No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.”

“The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.”

“The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you”

“The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.”

“We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.”

“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.”

“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.”

“The ally we must cultivate is the part of our enemy which knows the truth.”

“The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me”

“Better a good enemy than a bad friend.”

“When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.”

“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”

“Know your enemy - and learn about his favorite sport.”

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

“It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.”

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.”

“There is no greater mistake than to make light of an enemy By making light of an enemy many a kingdom has been lost.”

“Man is his own worst enemy.[Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]”

“It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you"ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you"ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you"ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.”

“[Negro] should realize that he is living in a war zone, and he is at war with an enemy that is as vicious and criminal and inhuman as any war-making country has ever been.”

“Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.”

“The commanders and fighters of the entire Chinese People's Liberation Army absolutely must not relax in the least their will to fight; any thinking that relaxes the will to fight and belittles the enemy is wrong.”

“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”

“A man has no enemy worse than himself.”

“The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.”

“We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports”

“The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.”

“After the enemies with guns have been wiped out, there will still be enemies without guns; they are bound to struggle desperately against us, and we must never regard these enemies lightly. If we do nor now raise and understand the problem in this way, we shall commit the gravest mistakes.”

“After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.”

“The common enemy is the white man.”

“The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.”

“One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.”

“The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.”

“But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see as much of it as any. Sharpen your blade!”

“Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy”

“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.”

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

“I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.”

“Never let the enemy pick the battle site.”

“Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.”

“When we land against the enemy, don't forget to hit him and hit him hard. When we meet the enemy we will kill him. We will show him no mercy.”

“I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even read his philosophers and listened to his music. I have studied in detail the account of every damned one of his battles. I know exactly how he will react under any given set of circumstances. And he hasn't the slightest idea of what I'm going to do. So when the time comes, I'm going to whip the hell out of him.”

“From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.”

“The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.”

“Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.”

“Everything is interconnected. Myinterest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called enemy is actually the destruction of your self.”

“An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.”