Quotes about Enemy Influence

Nick Clooney

The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.

Beth Moore

Every inch of ground we refuse to take with God, we surrender to the enemy.

Saint Ignatius

Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

Winnie Mandela

I have a good relationship with Mandela. But I am not Mandela's product. I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.

Walter Dean Myers

Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch

Thomas Hobbes

The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

T. D. Jakes

Worry worships the words of the enemy

Saadi

O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

Revilo P. Oliver

The public schools have indeed been the most powerful single engine of subversion that our enemies have used upon us.

Oliver was a right wing, racist, fanatic and extremist. His quotations are interesting because he often said in public what many right wing extremists only said in private. Paranoia and conspiracy theories were common with the extremists, then as now. In this case, they actually believed that Communists had infiltrated and taken over the 30,000 different school districts in the United States.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

H. R. McMaster

Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.

Garrison Keillor

If the government can round up someone and never be required to explain why, then it's no longer the United States of America as you and I always understood it. Our enemies have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They have made us become like them.

In the aftermath of 9-11, a few government agencies violated the law and civil rights of a number of “Muslims” and/or “Middle Eastern looking” individuals and held them incommunicado with no charges and no warrants. The rationale of those agencies is that they “could not take a chance as lives were at stake. In most major wars in America, there has been an “overreaction” by some officials.

Enemy Influence Quotes