#enemy

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#art #art of war #enemy #enough #find

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#admit #american #american dream #book #catch

One never really knows who one's enemy is. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#knows #never #really #who

Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy. ↗

— David Hackworth

#develop #eliminate #enemy #fortunately #global

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory. ↗

— Douglas Haig

#dangerous #defensive #desire #enemy #evade

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#also #among #burn #compared #enemy

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#character #easy #enemy #even #lack

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#consider #creating #dangerous #dangerous thing #enemy

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. ↗

— Nhat Hanh

#governments #invent #mobilize #need #order

Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice. ↗

— Hanoi Hannah

#believe #enemy #even #friendly #own