Cass McCombs Quotes

After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.

We protect the right of pacifists and other anti-war militants to assemble and advance their cause. But I don’t respect such people and I don’t shrink from exposing their ideas as destructive and suicidal. Pacifists are my enemy because wittingly or not, they serve the purposes of my enemy and jeopardize my freedom.

Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.

Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.

If you view everyone as your enemies, everyone around you will be your enemies.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'

Your enemies are always manufactured to suit your purpose, right? How can you have a good enemy? You have to have an utterly evil enemy - and then the evilness has to progress.

An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

Here's some news from Afghanistan. We're sending more troops to seal up the borders. Can we try that here? Three months, 12,000 pounds of bombs and billions and billions of dollars and the highest ranking enemy we've captured so far is an American.

Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn't mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.

People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.

As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win.

According to U.S. strategy, if you never see the other, his destruction will be more acceptableso that when Iraqi soldiers surrendered, sooner than expected, it was as if they emerged from a dream, a flash-back, a lost epoch--an epoch when the enemy still had a body and was still "like us.

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.

Till the enemy's weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.

How does it make sense to remove an option, to tell your enemy before you go into a conflict, that you will not exercise whatever options are necessary in order to achieve victory?

The task [in Afghanistan] is to reduce civilian casualties while still not hesitating to respond to enemies who are trying to kill our soldiers.

Consider those whom you call your enemies and figure out what they should call you.

All I can tell you is that I know the enemy, allies, and troops hear what I say.

The picture of the world's greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward nation into submission on an issue whose merits are hotly disputed, is not a pretty one.

There is no safety in regaining the favor of an enemy.

I don't feel I insult people. I try and get to the facts and I don't feel I insult people.