Adversaries Quotes - Page 8

• To seduce the enemies soldiers from their allegiance and encourage them to surrender is of special service, for an adversary is more hurt by desertion than by slaughter.

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

  Hurt, Military, Soldier

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• As these potential adversaries grow their missile programs, U.S. military facilities in Asia and the Middle East, as well as our allies, are increasingly in range with the United States homeland, and we are really absolutely and potentially being threatened. And within two years, we will absolutely have a real threat. They'll be able to reach us so easily the way it's going right now.

  Donald Trump

  Real, Military, Years

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It is not what your supporters, friends or your political adversaries call you that matters. What is important is what you think you must do in the interests of the country, which put you in such position, such post as the Head of the Russian State.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Thinking, Political

  "Sott Exclusive: Full unedited text of Vladimir Putin's interview with Charlie Rose: What CBS left out". www.sott.net. September 29, 2015.

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• Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment.

  Chris Christie

  Dream, Empires, Dictator

  "Chris Christie: 'It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now'". Chris Christie's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• 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.

  James Comey

  Receiving, Email, United States

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right away. That's not my way of doing things; I don't belong to the world of people who do things that way. I insist on this difference as something essential: a whole morality is at stake; the one that concerns the search for truth and the relation to the other.

  Michel Foucault

  Book, Differences, People

  Source: www.nicklewis.org

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• There is no doubt that this fusion of terrorist and Muslim feeds virulent forms of Islamophobia, which is also encouraged by such incidents as the Westgate Mall massacre in Nairobi and the Anglican Church bombing in Pakistan. 9/11 greatly intensified this tendency toward fusion, but it had also been nurtured by Israeli propaganda that portrayed their Palestinian and Arab adversaries as "terrorists." In fact, the US government approach after 9/11 was modeled in many of its features on Israeli tactics developed during the long occupation of Palestine.

  Richard A. Falk

  Government, Long, Doubt

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Jesus defeated satan in Gethsemane on the cross, not by directly confronting the devil, but by fulfilling the destiny to which He had been called. The greatest battle that was ever won was accomplished by the apparent death of the victor, without even a word of rebuke to His adversary!

  Francis Frangipane

  Jesus, Destiny, Battle

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• Gandhi saw how people have to re-think their own individuality before engaging in political activity. Otherwise they're just playing the game that the adversary has set out.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Thinking, Games, People

  "'The Buddah' & the End of Human Suffering/Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• I think Barack Obama had the right idea [on negotiations with enemies], and the bottom line is that of course there have to be conditions. But, of course it doesn't do us any good to not talk with our adversaries.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Ideas, Enemy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Part of diplomacy, the hard work of diplomacy is trying to extract whatever concessions you can get, and giving something the other side wants. Of course you've got to try to make peace with, and work with those who are your adversaries, but you don't just rush in, open the door, and say, "Here I am. Let's talk and make a deal."

  Hillary Clinton

  Hard Work, Doors, Here I Am

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I think cyber security, cyber warfare will be one of the biggest challenges facing the next president, because clearly we're facing at this point two different kinds of adversaries. There are the independent hacking groups that do it mostly for commercial reasons to try to steal information that they can use to make money.

  Hillary Clinton

  Independent, Thinking, Two

  "2016 Presidential Debates", TV Mini-Series (2016– ). "Episode #1.1", 2016.

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  People, Mind, Doubt

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• America can be a partner with China. We don't have to be an adversary in any way, shape or form. We can work with them, we can collaborate with them, if they're willing to be responsible.

  Mitt Romney

  America, Shapes, Way

  Source: genius.com

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

  William J. Duiker

  Mean, Political, Defeat

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• 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.

  William J. Duiker

  Use, Movement, Tactics

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• 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.

  Martin Schulz

  People, Political, Trying

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There were various aspects of Sun Tzu's approach that appealed to Ho Chi Minh: a) to learn to understand both the enemy and yourself, to seek out his weaknesses and your own strengths, and act accordingly, b) to make ample use of subterfuge and stratagem in order to defeat or disarm your adversary, and c) to use outright violence only when absolutely necessary in the belief that political struggle was more effective than military struggle.

  William J. Duiker

  Military, Struggle, Order

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing's for sure - he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.

  Bill Moyers

  Believe, Winning, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

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• The country didn't get that way in a week; we've had years and years of getting behind in our economy. So President [Barack] Obama stepped into a hellhole and people wanted him to change it as soon as he came in. But he's got his adversaries to deal with in the House and Senate, so it's not easy.

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Years, People

  Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

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• Donald Trump enters office with historically low approval ratings, that's where the battle could get fought. If the country turns against him, his Republican adversaries could feel emboldened.

  Sam Tanenhaus

  Country, Approval Rating, Office

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak by engaging our adversaries. So some of it is built into a political lexicon that makes you sound tougher if you don't talk to somebody, and rather, very loudly, wield a big stick.

  Barack Obama

  Political, President, Sound

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• [D-Day] means to me a beginning of the freedom of Europe. The freedom was the achievement of the military adversaries of the Germans.

  Manfred Rommel

  Military, Mean, Europe

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• We're well aware, and we have been for a long time, that there is a real threat from adversaries, state actors, non-state actors, to hack us, influence us, destroy stuff through cyber means. Because cyber threat has been understood for a while, it's longstanding, it's a concern.

  Susan Rice

  Real, Mean, Long

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• We're going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary - at work everywhere, its tentacles in everybody's politics, invulnerable, I think, to direct frontal assault, but probably more brittle than it guesses if we come at it from all sides.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Needs, Movement

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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