#enemy

What good is a friend if you can't make an enemy of him? ↗

— William Gillette

#friend #good #him #make #you

But then, as I rotated gloopily to check out the scene, who did I see next? Let's just say when your archenemy's trapped you in a place of certain death, and you've survived heroically against all the odds, the last thing you want to see, when you escape at last, is that same archenemy glaring down at you with an expression of annoyed distaste. (Even a different archenemy would have been marginally better.) ↗

— Bartimaeus Trilogy The Amulet of Samarkand

#humor #death

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured. ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

#arena #assured #enemy #enough #enter

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack. ↗

— Sterling Hayden

#attack #deterrence #enemy #fear #mind

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#art of war #enemy #fighting #subdue #supreme

Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do. ↗

— Eric Holder

#attempt #bomb #breadth #bring #challenges

The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism. ↗

— Arthur Seyss-Inquart

#jews #national #socialism

I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy. ↗

— Stonewall Jackson

#alcohol #am #bullets #enemy #i

The enemy of idealism is zealotry. ↗

— Neil Kinnock

#idealism

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

#bare #battle #become #before #begin