Adversaries Quotes

• Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

  Ronald Reagan

  Courage, War, Patriotic

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.

  William James

  Science, Discovery, Important

  Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking Lecture 6 (1907)

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

  Henry Wotton

  Truth, Telling The Truth, Puzzles

  "Fiske WordPower: The Exclusive System to Learn, Not Just Memorize, Essential Words". Book by Edward Fiske et al., 2006.

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• Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Evil, Ought, Ifs

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• Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Games, Two

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• 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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Views, Shoes

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• The Way of a Warrior is to establish harmony.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Communication, Warrior, Way

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.156, Shambhala Publications

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• Very simply, the Spirit of Elijah is the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of Elijah will influence anyone who is involved in this work. That, for a young person in the wickedness in the world in which we live today, is one of the greatest safeguards against the temptations of the adversary. The Spirit of Elijah will not only bless you, it will protect you.

  David A. Bednar

  Temptation, Live For Today, Wickedness

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• Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Bible, Devil, Roaring

  Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer (2010). “Wild Ride”, p.187, Macmillan

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• The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Inspiration, Perfect

  Christian Science bk. 1, ch. 5 (1907)

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• If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Peace, Heart

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.122, Shambhala Publications

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• On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

  Frederick Soddy

  Ignorance, Planes, Knowledge And Ignorance

  Frederick Soddy's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1922.

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• We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Leadership, Iran, Korea

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• The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

  Friedrich Engels

  Order, Use, Speak

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1968). “Selected works [of] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels”

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• Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Thinking, Giving, Satisfaction

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.39, University of Georgia Press

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• I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.

  Haley Barbour

  Careers, Community, Guy

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Deficit Reduction; Gov. Haley Barbour on 2012 Presidential Politics". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2011.

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• But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

  Tennessee Williams

  Men, Thinking, Spirit

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

  Francis Picabia

  Fighting, Winning, Way

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• No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Light, Enemy

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• I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.

  Rachael Ray

  Running, Morning, Years

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• 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.

  Robert Toombs

  Men, Doors, Dignity

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• Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.

  Nikolai Bukharin

  Christian, Enemy, Communism

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• Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Respect, Giving, Advantage

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.32

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• The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

  Michel Foucault

  Love, Everyday, Desire

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• Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Doors, Doe, Process

  Thurgood Marshall, Mark V. Tushnet (2001). “Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences”, p.375, Chicago Review Press

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