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Most Famous Enemy Quotes of All Time!

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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Quotes by James Madison

General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.

Quotes by James Longstreet

We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.

Quotes by James Larkin

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Quotes by James Baldwin

By 2003, if you didn't understand that the United States was inflicting torture on those deemed enemy combatants, you weren't paying much attention.

Quotes by Jacob Weisberg

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Quotes by J. Paul Getty

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

Quotes by J. F. C. Fuller

To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and...

Quotes by J. F. C. Fuller

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters.

Quotes by J. G. Ballard

Anyone in recovery knows that isolation is the biggest enemy.

Quotes by Ivan Moody

In general, literature is a natural adversary of totalitarianism. Tyrannical governments all view literature in the same way: as their enemy. I lived for a long time in a totalitarian state, and I know firsthand that horror.

Quotes by Ismail Kadare

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

Quotes by Ismail Kadare

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

Quotes by Isoroku Yamamoto

Even though there wasn't much damage, it's a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling...

Quotes by Isoroku Yamamoto

I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?

Quotes by Isaac Brock

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Quotes by Isaac Newton

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Quotes by Ian Mcewan

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

Quotes by Ian Fleming

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

I have so many photos of myself in my room when I was a kid; I had one wall that was all TLC posters that I got free at some record store, then another wall was all Public Enemy, and...

Quotes by Hunx

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a classic quote about strategy and the enemy?
Yes, one quote reads, "The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem," describing a general principle of military strategy.
Does a quote link understanding your own culture to dealing with an enemy?
Yes -- one quote makes the point that without knowing about flexibility, "one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes," tying strategic success to self-knowledge.
Is there a quote about time being the enemy of mediocrity?
Yes, one quote reads, "Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre."
Is there an investing quote about treating market swings as a friend, not an enemy?
Yes, one quote advises, "Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."
Where can I find more quotes about friendship?
See the Friend collection.

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