Adversaries Quotes

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Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend.

What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Around the world, America's influence has declined while this president [Barack Obama] has destroyed our military, our allies no longer trust us, and our adversaries no longer respect us.

concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.

Being daily better informed about their knowledge than my adversaries themselves, I argued till finally one day they applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.

I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries.

[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.

The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.

Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.

The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

You have to work more than your adversary.

I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime.

When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.

The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.

The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted the battle of the angels and the demons.

When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.

Ho Chi Minh preferred to use the tactics of negotiation and compromise, primarily because of his recognition that the revolutionary movement was militarily weaker than its adversaries.

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.

Ho Chi Minh sought to defeat both adversaries [French and American] primarily by using diplomatic and political means, combined with paramilitary activities.

There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who we generally consider as adversaries.

Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.

She [Hillary Clinton] used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries.

Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view

When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people's minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines democracy. Then you're doing the work of our adversaries for them.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.

Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?

There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not yin and yang that do this, it is your heart that makes it so.

I try to speak in a manner that allows people to tell me apart from my political adversaries. And I speak in a manner that the people can understand. For me, that isn't populism.

The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.

We shall choose our adversaries, not the other way around.