Quotes About Adversaries

The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.

Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

Demokratien pflegen ihre Feinde, sie liquidieren ihre Gegner.

Like his adversaries back in Wichita and Dodge, many hailed from Texas. But these weren't drovers intent on a little wild fun. They dealt in cattle, too, but instead of herding them, they stole them. For that they acquired a generic nickname that eventually evolved into a complimentary description, but one that in 1880 was intended as a slur, a means of identifying men so low and violent that no evil act was considered beneath them: Cowboys.

He who has one-hundred friends has no friends to lose, he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Or perhaps one's foes always seemed smaller once they had been defeated.

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

In poker, you want to play the weaker guys. In chess, it's the opposite.

Before I go up against the best forwards in the world - Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Neymar - I study their strengths and weaknesses like an obsession, and then I plan how I am going to attack. My goal is to show the world that Dani Alves is on the same level.

When you're fighting the best, best guys in the world, there's no glaring weaknesses. There's X-factors and there's small openings that you have to prepare for better and that's really it.

In addition to anti-American terrorists with global reach, our adversaries include organizations - some nation states, some private and some criminal - that proliferate weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them.

I regard sledging, chirping, whatever you want to call it, as one of the weapons at my disposal.

Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.

In the amateurs we fought four or five times a week so we always had different opponents.

I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

I came into politics to fight lefties... That's where political fighting goes.

Most corners are similar in terms of how you can beat them.

When it comes to the Cowboys, I always play great against them.

There's definitely guys out there that you don't like, and they'll try to crash you anytime they can't get around you.

I have a lot of critics; we all know that.

Anyone that goes to battle goes to battle knowing the mindset and tactics of their enemies.

There are different tactics depending on the opponents we face, and we respect the manager's choices.