Quotes About Adversaries

Unlike President Obama, I would say that I support the long-standing bipartisan post-war belief that American global strength and leadership secures our national-security interests, and it also promotes order and stability in the world. And it gives us immense influence in the world and deters our adversaries and reassures our allies.

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

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.

Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.

Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.

What most people don't understand about lawyers is that they're all scared shitless to actually fight with one another.

Then act—because success always boils down to this: Know your adversaries; then apply your will.

you can judge a man by his choice of enemies as well as or better than by his choice of friends

"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."

I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.

Anger, pride and competence are our real enemies.

One has sufficient enemies amongst men without deliberately seeking out others amongst the gods.

First, you know, 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.

Your job is to get villains. Right? You'll have to know what to do. If you don't know, you have to find out. If you can't find out you bloody well make it up and then you make it so.

Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies.

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

We're happier when the assholes are villains.

Revolutionaries are, by their nature, powerful and single-minded personalities. Almost invariably they start from a position of weakness vis-à-vis the political environment and rely for their success on charisma and on an ability to mobilize resentment and to capitalize on the psychological weakness of adversaries in decline.

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

It's too bad we can't take VA leadership and export it and give it to some of our adversaries around the planet. Let them suffer under VA's leadership.

Nosotros y nuestros patógenos estamos encerrados ahora en una escalada de competición evolutiva, con la muerte de un contendiente como precio de la derrota y con la selección natural desempeñando el papel de árbitro.

Our greatest adversaries now threaten us only with their disappearance.

One of the two adversaries is a rug salesman, the other an arms salesman: they have neither the same logic nor the same strategy, even though they are both crooks. There is not enough communication between them to enable them to make war upon each other.