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Quotes About Adversaries

As part of Rockefeller's silent craft and habit of extended premeditation, he never tipped off his adversaries to his plans for revenge, preferring to spring his reprisals on them.
~ Ron Chernow
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of our 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
What happens when you win? When your enemies are at your mercy: how will you act then? Compromise is the temptation of the weak; this is the test for the strong.
~ Salman Rushdie
Confusion to our enemies!
~ Salman Rushdie
If their forces are substantial, prepare for them; if their forces are strong, avoid them.
~ Sun Tzu
Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.
~ Jay Sekulow
I have only two adversaries — I will not say two conquerors, for with perseverance I subdue even them, — they are time and distance. There is a third, and the most terrible — that is my condition as a mortal being.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Sólo tengo dos adversarios, y no vencedores, porque con la constancia los sujeto, y son el tiempo y el espacio. El tercero, y el más terrible, es mi condición de hombre mortal.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Il coraggio incute rispetto anche ai nemici
~ Alexandre Dumas - Pere
is natural that they should hasten to invoke the assistance of religion, for they must know that liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith; but they have seen religion in the ranks of their adversaries, and they inquire no further; some of them attack it openly, and the remainder are afraid to defend it.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Enemies are like furniture, aren't they? Better chosen for oneself than inherited.
~ Joe Abercrombie
A man is measured by his enemies. Worthy ones can be more missed than friends.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Enemies are the price of success
~ Joe Abercrombie
There's only one kind of good news, and that's dead enemies.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Los enemigos son el precio del éxito
~ Joe Abercrombie
History, faith, and reason show the way--the way of unity. We can see each other, not as adversaries, but as neighbors. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting, and lower the temperature. For without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury.
~ Joe Biden
Peace is something you make with your adversaries, not with your friends.
~ Johan Galtung
Let the enemies of life step down.
~ Saul Bellow
His enemies shall lick the dust.
~ Anonymous
You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Whenever the Klitschkos pick opponents who punch back, things go pear-shaped for them.
~ David Haye
Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.
~ Henry Wotton
Some of the fighters I've boxed, I've forgot their names.
~ Dereck Chisora
I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with.
~ Nick Diaz