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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.
Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma). One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa. Rely on your Self; self-reliance
Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.
I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.
Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.
The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
Nature's not our enemy, it's our sustenance; and we need it - and we need nature healthy for us to be healthy and to survive long term
People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.
Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.
Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.
I don't think that the real enemy of the music industry is illegal downloading; I think the real enemy of the music industry is radio.
Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.
We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil. With him never be reconciled! But with a brother, never be at enmity in thy heart.
If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide.
The sword of Mahomet, and the Coran, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth, which the world has yet known.
Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.
You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.
It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.
The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.
The biggest enemy we face is anthropocentrism. This is that common attitude that everything on this Earth was put here for [human] use.
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
If you help manufacture an enemy that's really evil, you can point to the fact that it's really evil, and say, "Hey, it's really evil."
If I'm ever feeling uninspired, all I have to do is go see Exodus or Arch Enemy, and think 'Oh yeah, that's what we're doing this for.'
Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated.
You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.
I would rather my enemy's sword pierce my heart then my friend's dagger stab me in the back." Faustus - Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire
When you attack the enemy, your spirit must go to the extent of pulling the stakes out of a wall and using them as spears and halberds.
US wars are going to be against much weaker enemies. And they have to be won quickly and decisively before a popular reaction develops.
The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell's Ford.
Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger.
The thing you have to be on guard against, more than anything, is self-sabotage. You have to make sure you're not your own worst enemy.
The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.
Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends. Discerning the two is a life's work.
How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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.
Regrettably, to deactivate an entire cartel also proved to be a difficult task for my father and with all the enemies he had, even more.
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
Putin needed an enemy, an Other, against which to mobilize. LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent.
The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.
Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.
The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.
Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.