Quotes About Adversary

The natural state of the human psyche consists in a jostling together of its components and in their contradictory behavior... The reconciliation of these opposites is a major problem. Thus, the adversary is none other than 'the other in me.

Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

State and politics cannot be exterminated. . . For the application of such means, a new and essentially pacifist vocabulary has been created. War is condemned but executions, sanctions, punitive expeditions, pacifications, protection of treaties, international police, and measure to assure peace remain. The adversary is thus no longer called an enemy but a disturber of peace and is thereby designated to be an outlaw of humanity.

As long as the enemy is not defeated, he may defeat me; then I shall be no longer my own master; he will dictate the law to me as I did to him.

One enemy is too much.

While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as captured artillery is turned about and aimed at the backs of the fleeing enemy.

The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.

Get thee behind me, Satan.

He that is not with me is against me.

We have met the enemy and they are ours.

There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy.

Lessers were fewer and farther between now than ever, and there had been sightings, by others in the Brotherhood, of a very different kind of foe.

When I played against Joe Cole, if I was ever less than 100 per cent I'd know about it because he can twist and turn you inside out.

In any game, you have an enemy coming at yourself that you have to shoot. If you go back to 'Space Invaders,' they shoot at you when they come at you, so how are you going to protect yourself? You're going to shoot, and that is a typical videogame.

I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraine - not Russia - attacked us in 2016.

I refuse to believe this rhetoric that the Labour party can't get under one big umbrella with a common enemy - sometimes a common enemy is an absolutely delightful unifier.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

If great teams don't have an "enemy," they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, "you can't have a war without one."

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win.

In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battles. But if you know only yourself and not the enemy, for every victory, there will also be defeat.

Sometimes, if your opponent is determined to win the battle, let him win the wrong battle.

Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.