Enemy Quotes
Knowing what stands against you.
A good portion of this collection reads like strategic thinking, from classic wartime doctrine about minimizing harm to yourself while maximizing pressure on an opponent, to the idea that understanding your own culture matters just as much as reading an adversary. See Friend for the flip side of this theme.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
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Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
Following the principle that you should know your enemy, the BBC has assiduously recorded the relentless rise of Rupert Murdoch and his assault on the old 'decadent' elites of Britain.
Friend Quotes
In the battle for Kobane on the Syrian border, everyone talks about the enemy - IS - and the frightening ideas that drive them. No one talks about the Kurdish defenders and what inspires them.
As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
Man Quotes
Suits are malevolent magicians' sleeves for socialists, full of patrician loops and tricks, small, embroidered, cryptic messages of deference and privilege. They are ever the uniform of the enemy. They are also the greatest British invention ever.
Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
Me Quotes
The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.
As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his...
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
