Best weak & enemy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.”

States Moments Seems Government Given Nations Causes Interest United Opinion Enemy Break United States Society Consequence Direct Weak Defense Insignificant Trifles Weak Points

Author:James F. Cooper

“Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as captured artillery is turned about and aimed at the backs of the fleeing enemy.”

Thinking Men Trying Heart Use Problem Turns Enemy Danger Weak Simplicity Complicated Solve Heroic Adversaries Captured Fleeing Shattering Imposter Artillery Weak Man Prowling

Author:Georges Bernanos

“The US has unthinkingly embarked upon a neoimperial policy that must involve us in virtually every great war of the coming century-and wars are the death of republics. If we continue on this course of reflexive interventions, enemies will one day answer our power with the weapon of the weak-terror, and eventually cataclysmic terrorism on US soil.”

Ifs War Courses Answers Enemy Century Policy One Day Weapons Weak Terror Terrorism Soil Republic Intervention Great War

Author:Pat Buchanan

“A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.”

Walks Enemy Break Weak Stronger Threat Relaxed Break Through Crafty Ambush

Book:Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'

“There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.”

Littles Stories Enemy Weak Invention Slander

Book:The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes

Source: The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes

“An enemy should be struck at his weak point.”

Should Political Enemy Weak Weak Points

Author:Chanakya

“Enemies strike at weak points.”

Political Enemy Weak Strikes Weak Points

Author:Chanakya

“The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance and produce the effects of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy. If Alaric himself had been introduced into the council of Ravenna, he would probably have advised the same measures which were actually pursued by the ministers of Honorius.”

Ifs May Government Enemy History Effects Produce Weak Assuming Appearance Ministers Council Distracted Pursued Roman Empire Correspondence Incapacity Public Enemies

Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

“Americans have eliminated Iran's worst enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam [Hussein]. I occasionally threatened my Iranian counterpart in Kabul that one day I would send him a big bill for what we did. But, seriously, Iran is pursuing a dual strategy in Iraq. On the one hand, the Iranians, after decades of hostility, are now interested in good relations. On the other hand, they want to keep the country weak and dominate the region.”

“When your enemy falls to the ground, help him to get up! Never let a man in that condition stay on the ground! To help the weak, be it enemy, be it rival, is an honour for you!”

Men Helping Fall Enemy Conditions Weak Get Up Honour Rivals

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.”

Able Half Enemy Democracy Capitalism Advantage Weak Other Half Democracies Have One Half

Book:Notes On Democracy

Source: Notes On Democracy

“Seven-and-a-half years of the weak and feckless foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has weakened America's place in the world and it has emboldened the enemies of our freedom.”

World Years America Half Enemy Policy Weak Clinton Seven Barack Foreign Policy Places In The World Half A Year Feckless

Author:Mike Pence

“The influence of Sun Tzu on other North Vietnamese military strategists is harder to answer. Certainly many of the key leaders in Hanoi were aware of Sun Tzu and made use of his ideas - Vo Nguyen Giap applied many of these ideas in seeking out weak elements in the enemy's defenses, as did Truong Chinh, whose famous treatise, The Resistance Will Win (1947), cited the ideas of Mao Zedong as a model for the North Vietnamese to follow.”

Made Ideas Use Winning Answers Leader Enemy Sun Influence Military Keys Elements Models Weak Harder Seeking Defense Resistance Strategist Vietnamese Mao Hanoi

Author:William J. Duiker

“The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy of Jew is not Arab, the enemy of youth is not the old, the enemy of hip is not redneck, the enemy of Chicano is not gringo and the enemy of women is not men. We all have the same enemy. The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.”

Men Mind Black White Enemy Practice Youth Weak Victim Jew Tyranny Hips Experts Dull Lazy Manipulation Communist Capitalist Homosexual Redneck Standardization Dull Minds

Author:Tom Robbins

“An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.”

Men Firsts Shows Games Strong Can Do Enemy Teach Teacher Weak Conquer Old Man Where You Are Smarter Ender Rules Of The Game Enders Game Ender Wiggin

Author:Orson Scott Card

“It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.”

Men Kind Enough Might Force Enemy Modern Personality Worship Weak Extremes Intellect Admire Oppression Coward Allegiance Meanness Morbidity Great Personality

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance.”

Wells Reading Enemy Weak Quitting Vengeance

Book:At Home in Mitford

Source: At Home in Mitford

“Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.”

Thinking Kind Different Enemy Dangerous Glory My Friends Weak Humble Different Kinds Loyal Passive Think Of Me

Author:Euripides

“What's the point of having weak enemies? They just waste your time.”

Enemy Waste Weak

Book:Iorich

Source: Iorich

“Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?”

World Want Should Enough Home Enemy Weak Circles Noise Insanity Diets Poison Relief Tolerate Surroundings Acquaintance Motor Insipid Silent Spring

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always frustrated me, destroying what I have built, washing away what I have left, wiping clean the marks I have made.”

Men Made Hate Left Enemy Sea Stupid Shadow Built Weak I Hate Mark Clean Destroying Frustrated Washing Things I Hate Washing Away

Book:The wasp factory: a novel

Source: The wasp factory: a novel

“It was sort of the pattern to my life - I'd never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my control, to attack the enemies or outrun them. To avoid the pain. Always human and weak, the only thing I'd ever been able to do was keep going. Endure. Survive.”

Humans Enough Able Pain Strong Deals Enemy Weak Endure Patterns Keep Going Twilight Strong Enough Outrun Breaking Dawn Bella Swan

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your teeth chatter and you stamp your feet and dream of mulled wine and nice hot fires. It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it. It's easier just to sit down ot go to sleep. They say you don't feel any pain toward the end. First you go weak and drowsy, and everything starts to fade, and then it's like sinking into a sea of warm milk. Peaceful, like.”

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body be influenced by your spirit. Be neither insufficiently spirited or over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.”

War Body Spirit Enemy Lows Weak Your Body Spirited

Book:The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi

Source: The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi

“We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.”

Humans Hands Speak Nations Justice Enemy Brother Diversity Weak Victim Social Justice Documents Brothers And Sisters Voiceless Breaking Silence Human Hands

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a powerful one, and neglects to place picked soldiers in the front rank, the result must be rout.”

Art War Force Results Powerful Enemy Fronts Weak Soldier Neglect Inferiors Art Of War Detachment

Book:Strategy Six Pack

Source: Strategy Six Pack

“If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.”

“Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.”

Men Enemy Weakness Weak Weak Man

Book:Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor

Source: Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor

“Should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.”

Ifs Should Art War Left Enemy Military Weak Vans Art Of War Strategist Reinforcement

Book:Strategy Six Pack

Source: Strategy Six Pack

“You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and want to bear less danger, the more the enemy is weak or the less the enemy is cautious, so much more must you esteem him.”

Ifs Knows Want Believe Doe Art War Enemy Know How Danger Bears Weak Affair Esteem Deceived Art Of War Cautious

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy's position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is minor and the enemy's position weak.”

Ifs War Problem Strong Enemy Position Weak Graves Minors Alliances

Author:Sun Tzu

“He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his obedience cancelled their disobedience. On the other hand, he bound the strong one and freed the weak and bestowed salvation on his handiwork by abolishing sin. For he is our compassionate and merciful Lord who loves mankind ... Had not man conquered man's adversary, the enemy would not have been conquered justly. Again, had it not been God who bestowed salvation we would not possess it securely.”

Men Has Beens Hands Father Jesus Strong Sin Lord Enemy Mankind Weak Salvation Bounds Obedience Compassionate Adversaries Disobedience Merciful Handiwork

Author:Irenaeus of Lyons

“Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.”

America Evil Enemy Weak Selfishness Materialistic Splinters

Author:George W. Bush

“Wise man also fears a weak enemy.”

Men Decision Enemy Wise Weak Strategy

Author:Publilius Syrus

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