Opponents Quotes - Page 18

Respect every opponent, but fear none.

John Wooden

Fear None

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The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.

Walter Lippmann

Wise, Hurt, Ruins

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My martial arts came a lot from my uncle, who actually taught martial arts through the military. He was a black belt in tae kwon do, but also, he used a lot of military-style fighting where it's not the high kicks or anything like that. It's basically defeat your opponent as fast as possible.

Brian Tee

Art, Uncles, Military

"‘Mortal Kombat Legacy 2’ actor Brian Tee talks darker take on Liu Kang". Hero Complex interview, herocomplex.latimes.com. September 26, 2013.

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I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.

Charles Kennedy

Fighting, Thinking, Views

"Gently does it?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2005.

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There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.

Hosea Ballou

Religious, Doubt, Prejudice

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I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.

Jimmy Connors

Real, Kissing, Hug

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It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.

Hannah Arendt

Government, Dramatic, Conviction

Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.206, Penguin

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Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

David Frum

Political, Election, Political Opponents

"ABC Highlights Frum's Charge Fox News and Selfish Limbaugh to Blame for Health Defeat". "Nightline" with Terry Moran, www.newsbusters.org. March 22, 2010.

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When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views.

Rick Bass

Eye, Views, People

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Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.

Jeb Bush

Thinking, Giving, Political

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I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

Kate Beckinsale

Thinking, Doe, Routine

Interview with Ruth Hilton, www.maxim.com. June 29, 2011.

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Just a few months ago in the Republican primary Mitt Romney said to his opponents, who he was crushing at the time, stop whining. And I think that's a good message for the Romney campaign. Instead of whining about what the Obama campaign is saying, why don't you just put the facts out there and let people decide rather than trying to hide them.

Stephanie Cutter

Crush, Thinking, People

"Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.theshowbuzz.com. July 15, 2012.

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It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Strong, Military, War

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Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Military, Resistance, Pressure

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For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Military, Sight, Balance

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If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Strong, Military, War

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Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing this, conservatives allow liberals to pursue incremental goals without revealing their ultimate destination. So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding 'more' while never defining 'enough.' The predictable result is that they always get more, and it's never enough.

Joseph Sobran

Goal, Wish, Principles

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Obama's style of argumentation is unlike any president I have ever met, and I've met a lot of them. And the condescension that oozes from him when he's talking about his opponents, it's really striking.

Paul Gigot

Talking, Style, President

"Jeb Bush's Iraq Stumble". "Journal Editorial Report" with Paul Gigot, www.wsj.com. May 17, 2015.

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In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mean, Self, Errors

Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.61, Hackett Publishing

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Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mean, Men, Blood

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Achievement, Enemy, Mathematics

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Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.

Samuel Johnson

Children, Order, Nymphs

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It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to pacify your opponent; with expressing resentment you might stir up hostility in him.

Frederick Salomon Perls

Guilt, Might, Resentment

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You can concede to an opponent something he hasn't earned. It's one thing to underestimate an opponent. But maybe the worst thing is to overestimate. You always play your strengths. But that doesn't mean you become predictable.

Chuck Knox

Mean, Reality, Play

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It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

Viktor Korchnoi

Play, Boards, Chess

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