Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
The whole idea of deterrence is to convince your enemy that you are willing and able to make it so painful for them to continue on a threatening or bellicose course that they change their behavior.
The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
When I got to WWE developmental, that pedigree did not help you at all. It was against you. You were an enemy of the state when you walked in, when you had an independent background.
Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.
It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.
If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
Even though there wasn't much damage, it's a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense.
What the Shin Bet did in the Bus 300 affair is no less than declaring a revolt. They took the methods of manipulation, disinformation, threats, blackmail, etc. and instead of using them against the enemy, they used these tactics against their own side.
A particular modern problem is that megalomania, especially when it involves real estate development, is the disturbance of many faceless men. And a faceless man is a difficult enemy.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.
Dullness is the enemy.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
