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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• 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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• Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

  Seneca the Younger

  Endurance, Prowess, Shows

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Adolf Hitler

  Greek, Historical, Sake

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

  John Dryden

  Triumph, Praise, Commendation

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.204

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• Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.

  George F. Kennan

  Military, Ocean, Government

  Foreword to 'The Pathology of Power' by Norman Cousins in 1987. "At a Century's Ending: Reflections 1982-1995". Book by George F. Kennan, p. 118, 1996.

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• Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before us, by assuring potential adversaries of our seriousness, by actively pursuing every chance of honest and fruitful negotiation.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Goal, Alliances

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

  Winston Churchill

  Copying, Ruins, Method

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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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• 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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• 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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• Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

  John C. Calhoun

  Wrath, Patient

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• The real Art of Peace is not to sacrifice a single one of your warriors to defeat an enemy. Vanquish your foes by always keeping yourself in a safe and unassailable position; then no one will suffer any losses. The Way of a Warrior, the Art of Politics, is to stop trouble before it starts. It consists in defeating your adversaries spiritually by making them realize the folly of their actions. The Way of a Warrior is to establish harmony.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Peace, Real

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.156, Shambhala Publications

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

  Tennessee Williams

  Men, Thinking, Spirit

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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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• Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

  Martin Heidegger

  Thinking, Reason, Century

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

  Francis Picabia

  Fighting, Winning, Way

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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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• 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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