#enemy

One never really knows who one's enemy is. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#knows #never #really #who

Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy. ↗

— David Hackworth

#develop #eliminate #enemy #fortunately #global

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory. ↗

— Douglas Haig

#dangerous #defensive #desire #enemy #evade

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#also #among #burn #compared #enemy

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#character #easy #enemy #even #lack

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#consider #creating #dangerous #dangerous thing #enemy

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. ↗

— Nhat Hanh

#governments #invent #mobilize #need #order

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

— Hanoi Hannah

#believe #enemy #even #friendly #own

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#false #greatest #progress #stagnation

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music. ↗

— Dan Hawkins

#always #band #basically #been #enemy