Zitat des Tages über Feind / Enemy:
When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us.
In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.
Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.
Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.
Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
I am an enemy to revolutions. I abhor, both from temper and from the clearest judgment I am able to form, all violent convulsions in the affairs of men.
You should never appease terrorists. The mistake made by critics of the 'talking to your enemy' approach is to equate talking with appeasing.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.
Even though we know the origin of diseases, panic sweeps. It's one thing that frightens us, because it's your health and your body - it's more like a tangible threat; it's not like a foreign enemy you can fight. That was really what was uppermost to many of us whilst making 'Black Death.'
Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
Before, you only had one Public Enemy and one Rakim and one Salt 'N' Pepa. Now, people have got the formula, and some of them are just doing it for the cheque. It's kind of watered down.
Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
I really tried out for the part of Harry Potter, but they ended up picking me for the part of the enemy of Harry. Actually it is really fun playing the bad kid because it just has so many interesting qualities to it. And Daniel Radcliffe and I get along really well off set so it's really fun filming.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
