Quotes About Adversaries

Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error.

Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come...

Jasnah raised an eyebrow. "You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others—heretic, Vorin, Ysperist, or Maakian—are equally closed-minded.

Where there are villains, there will be heroes. They will come.

The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways." Deuteronomy 28:7

In the final forms of moral disengagement, wrongdoers treat adversaries as subhuman animalistic, demonic beings. Expunging any sense of shared humanity eliminates moral restraints.

Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

What's the point of having weak enemies? They just waste your time.

America is back' is a divisive, foolish slogan. It only baffles America's allies and emboldens our adversaries.

CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn.

that it was an advantage to him to be interrupted in speaking, and that his adversaries were afraid to nettle him, lest his anger should redouble his eloquence.

Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.

We may be doomed, but why not enjoy ourselves? It will lessen the victory of our adversaries.

Well, robots are, of course, the monkey's natural enemy.

There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

You're an interesting man, sergeant. You make enemies like a craftsman.

They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.

And obviously I will try to beat Juan Pablo. We are not friends. But we respect each other. May the best man win - I hope it's me.

Anybody in the UFC has a chance to knock you out.

I really enjoyed working with Rey Mysterio when we were up against Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit and The Guerreros.

If you are not with me, you are against me. I have no mercy for my enemies.

Even in safe havens, men have enemies

One of the problems with the kill-or-capture metric is that it has often been to the exclusion of having a deeper, richer understanding of the movement, its origins, and our adversaries' mindset. The nuances are absolutely critical. Our adversaries are wedded to the ideology that informs and fuels their struggle, and, by not paying attention, we risk not knowing our enemy.