Enemy Within Quotes

• A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moving, Tyrants, World Government

  Speaking to the Roman Senate, as recorded by Sallust in The Catiline War (c. 40 b.c.). This quotation is a favorite of CIA counterintelligence officers.

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• When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Confidence

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• Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Reality, Men, Worst Enemy

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1428, Barbour Publishing

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• A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Tyrants, Ambitious, Fool

  Speaking to the Roman Senate, as recorded by Sallust in The Catiline War (c. 40 b.c.). This quotation is a favorite of CIA counterintelligence officers.

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• It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Crush, Enemy, Impossible

  Eiji Yoshikawa (1981). “Musashi”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Friendship, Wisdom, Kings

  "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• It’s never the enemy without who brings you down. It’s always the enemy within.” – Nick “Guard your back, Nick. It’s the one you don’t see coming. The one you trust whose betrayal is most lethal. They know your weakness and they know how to hit the lowest. It’s when your back is turned and your guard is down that they move in for the kill.” – Kyrian

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Betrayal, Moving, Enemy

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• Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, War, Enemy

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• American's greatest deficit is no longer found in the federal budget. It is a moral deficit, and it may be found in a polluted and poisoned culture that has become the great enemy within.

  Pat Buchanan

  America, Enemy, Culture

  Pat Buchanan's Presidential announcement speech in Courtyard, New Hampshire, buchanan.org. March 2, 1999.

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• The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Luxury, Enemy, Folly

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• We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Fighting, Enemy, Liberty

  "National archives: Margaret Thatcher wanted to crush power of trade unions" by Alan Travis, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2013.

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• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Witty, Funny Inspirational, Business

  "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 93), 2002.

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• Know the enemy and know yourself.

  Sun Tzu

  Fear, Military, War

  The Art of War ch. 3 (translation by Yuan Shibang)

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• Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

  Steven Pressfield

  Self, Enemy, Opponents

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.8, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Enemy, Dictator

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• I fought with my twin, the enemy within.

  Bob Dylan

  Insanity, Enemy, Twins

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• You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought

  Peter McWilliams

  Luxury, Negative, Negative Thoughts

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Love 101: To Love Oneself Is the Beginning of a Lifelong Romance”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Enemy

  Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions

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• Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.

  John Dryden

  Forgiveness, Soul, Forgiving

  John Dryden (1882). “Dramatic works”

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• The best director is the one you don't see.

  Billy Wilder

  Inspirational, Motivational, Directors

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I am convinced that 1941 will be the crucial year of a great New Order in Europe. The world shall open up for everyone. Privileges for individuals, the tyranny of certain nations and their financial rulers shall fall. And last of all this year will help to provide the foundations of a real understanding among peoples, and with it the certainty of conciliation among nations. . . . Those nations who are still opposed to us will some day recognize the greater enemy within. Then they will join us in a combined front, a front against Jewish exploitation and racial degeneration.

  Adolf Hitler

  Real, Fall, Order

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• A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Fighting, Enemy, Operators

  Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.35, John Wiley & Sons

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• Indians still consider the whites a brutal people who treat their children like enemies - playthings, too, coddling them like pampered pets or fragile toys, but underneath always like enemies, enemies that must be restrained, bribed, spied upon, and punished. They believe that children so treated will grow up as dependent and immature as pets and toys, and as angry and dangerous as enemies within the family circle, to be appeased and fought.

  Mari Sandoz

  Children, Growing Up, Believe

  Mari Sandoz (1959). “Hostiles and Friendlies: Selected Short Writings of Mari Sandoz”, p.32, U of Nebraska Press

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• I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Dwarves, Hands

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims - not excuse it, but expect it. And that's happened because you have an Islamophobia industry in this country devoted to making Americans think there's an enemy within.

  Reza Aslan

  Country, Thinking, Enemy

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