enemies

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

If there is an enemy, it is the ego. If there is a devil, it is the ego. Every obstacle is created by the ego, for the ego. Every obstacle. The ego can be overcome, and in so doing are you made free. That is the way.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.

If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.

Yet is every man his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

The third rule is: Whenever possible go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.