#enemy

We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#any #back #before #borders #different

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men. ↗

— King Hussein I

#blocks #burden #civilized #developing #development

People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing. ↗

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

#before #camera #cut #enemy #facing

Our country was hit on 9/11, 2001. Everybody in the world knows that. It hasn't been easy to deal with a different kind of enemy, but that is what we have, a different kind of enemy. ↗

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

#country #deal #different #different kind #easy

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#common #decencies #efficiency #enemy #freedom

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#enemy #freedom #majority #our #society

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#creativity #enemy #everything #guts #imagination

If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head. ↗

— Anonymous

#courage #enemy #lesson #life #love

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#enemies #enemy #friend #friends #friendship

Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#motivational