All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

...according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

Those who would wage war, should first eliminate all domestic enemies before proceeding to attack the external foe.

I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.

The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.

I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you.

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

If an organ gets a "dis-ease" you want to care for it like a wounded friend, not an enemy who's turned against you.

Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.

There is no greater mistake than to make light of an enemy By making light of an enemy many a kingdom has been lost.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch

Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

Those who stand on our side in the fight against terrorism are our friend. Those on the opposite side are our enemy.

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

Maybe something new is even being done by people who see our generation as an enemy. That can create energy as well.

Do not fear the enemy, for they can take only your life. Fear the media far more, for they will destroy your honour.

The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.

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

I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts.

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.

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

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants

One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.

When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.

Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

Sixteen years after 9/11, we still don't even know what to call the enemy, rather than form a comprehensive strategy.

Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.

If you have an enemy, you first have to listen - whether he really is an enemy or just speaks in a different language

The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue

Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.

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