Enemy Quotes

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Be where your enemy is not.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Having strong enemies is a blessing.

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy’s purpose.

Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is certain to take, and with lures of ostensible profit they await him in strength.