L. Neil Smith Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• Try never to speak of your enemies by name. Any publicity is still publicity - and there are those for whom your disapproval constitutes a recommendation.

  L. Neil Smith

  Names, Enemy, Trying

  "Some New Tactical Reflections". www.ncc-1776.org. January 15, 1998.

• Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.

  L. Neil Smith

  Enemy, Allies, Action

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The American Zone”, p.57, Macmillan

• Choose your enemies carefully: you'll probably be known much better and far longer for who they were, than for anything else you ever managed to accomplish.

  L. Neil Smith

  Enemy, Accomplish, Known

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The American Zone”, p.64, Macmillan

• Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media - have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which - exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue - the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.

  L. Neil Smith

  Reality, Media, Space

  "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 20, 2010.

• Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death.

  L. Neil Smith

  Taken, Rocks, Enemy

  "Some New Tactical Reflections". www.ncc-1776.org. January 15, 1998.

• I have a recurring daymare that when the Glorious People's SWAT Teams smash their way in, most of us - by which I mean members of the general freedom movement - will be caught flatfooted, sitting in our underwear behind our computer monitors, guzzling Jolt and gorging on Cheetos, while arguing with our friends and enemies online about immigration or abortion, two of the issues that the Lefties know they can always rely on to keep that general freedom movement divided and powerless.

  L. Neil Smith

  Team, Mean, Two

  "Pushing Rope". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. February 15, 2009.

• Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.

  L. Neil Smith

  Humanity, Enemy, Important

  "Am I the NRA?". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 14, 2007.

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