Enemy Of The State Quotes

“If you aren't destroying your enemies, it's because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of who your enemies are. You have been brainwashed into believing you are your own enemy, and you are set against yourself. The enemy is laughing at you as you tear yourself to pieces. That is the most effective warfare an enemy can launch on his foes: confounding them.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“He came up flailing and sputtering and began to thrash his way toward the line of willows that marked the submerged creek bank. He could not swim, but how would you drown him? His wrath seemed to buoy him up. Some halt in the way of things seems to work here. See him. You could say that he's sustained by his fellow men, like you. Has peopled the shore with them calling to him. A race that gives suck to the maimed and the crazed, that wants their wrong blood in its history and will have it. But they want this man's life. He has heard them in the night seeking him with lanterns and cries of execration. How then is he borne up? Or rather, why will not these waters take him?”
― Cormac McCarthy

“I must have missed the fine print disclaimer in my school textbooks while learning about the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. It must have read: Warning – by learning this material it will make you a future enemy of the state.”
― LibertasIntel

“Heiner Müller zeroed in on this contradiction by noting ascerbically that the main economic activity of the Eastern regimes was always the production of state enemies (in other words, the system produced vast numbers of literate, well-educated workers who could not fail to notice the yawning gap between the ideal of a people’s democracy and the despotism of the one-party state).”
― Dennis Redmond, The World is Watching: Video as Multinational Aesthetics, 1968-1995

“States rise, states fall,
but cultures are everlasting.
Isms arrive, isms wither,
but human spirit is evergreen.

You don't have to support
the state to love the culture.
You may be deemed enemy of the state,
and still be a hero of the culture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Heroes of culture are often branded as enemy of the state.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Society is no longer a property of the state.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Never confuse culture with state. Some of the richest cultures of the world often end up with some of the most regressive states in the world - Türkiye, Azerbaijan, India, Italy to name a few, in the context of 2023.

So I repeat, never let your disapproval of a government make you bitter towards a culture. Government never reflects culture - if it did, I would not have penned a single Turkish word in my works - as opposed to the fact that, the Turkish culture is an intrinsic element of Naskarean literature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch