Enemies Quotes

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.

He who kills even one unbeliever of those who rule over us, whether he does it secretly or openly, shall be rewarded by God. And let every Moslem, in whatever part of the world he may be, swear a solemn oath to kill at least three or four of the infidels who rule over him, for they are the enemies of God and of the faith. Let every Moslem know that his reward for doing so shall be doubled by the God who created heaven and earth. A Moslem who does this shall be saved from the terrors of the day of Judgment, of the resurrection of the dead. Who is the man who can refuse such a recompense for such a small deed? ... Yet the time has come that we should rise up as the rising of one man, in one hand a sword, in the other a gun, in his pocket balls of fire and death-dealing missiles, and in his heart the light of the faith.

Civilizations die from suicide, not murder

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Brothers in Islam! We now have the enemy in front of us and the deep sea behind us. We cannot return to our homes, because we have burnt our boats. We shall now either defeat the enemy and win or die a coward's death by drowning in the sea. Who will follow me?

Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.

The greatest joy for a man is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all they possess, to see those they love in tears, to ride their horses, and to hold their wives and daughters in his arms.

… an enemy within the gates, doing more harm than good.

An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Forgiveness is up to God. I just hope we hurry up the meeting. And that’s the way I feel about him, really.

Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue.

Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution. The basic reason why all previous revolutionary struggles in China achieved so little was their failure to unite with real friends in order to attack real enemies.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

The deadliest enemies of nations are not their foreign foes; they always dwell within their borders. And from these internal enemies civilization is always in need of being saved.

I trust no one, not even myself.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.