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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.

10

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.

Quotes by Aesop

9

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

Quotes by Aeschylus

8

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.

Quotes by Adolf Galland

7

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.

Quotes by Adam Curtis

Friend Quotes

6

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.

Quotes by Adam Curtis

5

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.

Quotes by Adam Clarke

4

Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.

Quotes by Abu Bakr

3

Abortionists are not the enemy. Our enemy is sin.

Quotes by Abby Johnson

2

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

Quotes by A. J. Liebling

Man Quotes

1

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.

Quotes by A. A. Gill

Other lines apply the same logic to markets, treating downturns as opportunity rather than something to fear. For more competitive or rivalry-focused pages, browse Man or More.