Adversaries Quotes · Page 3

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

President Biden's decision to rejoin the failed Paris Climate Accord props up our adversaries at the expense of American workers.

— Bill Hagerty

If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.

— Esther Peterson

Hillary Clinton hates Julian Assange, she is just an adversary of internet freedom.

— Kim Dotcom

I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime.

— Henning von Tresckow

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

— Ludwig von Mises

The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend.

— Evagrius Ponticus

The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.

— Gloria Steinem

“Your enemy is presenting you with new options and challenges every day. If you respond in a wholly expected way each time,…

— Stanley Bing

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with…

— Adolf Hitler

I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off.…

— Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to…

— Richard V. Allen

The United States of America is the leading power in the world. Our friends and our adversaries respect us in large measure…

— Susan Rice

We have to use all of America's strengths to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries, more shared responsibility and…

— Hillary Clinton

Unfortunately, when Trump meets with the Russian foreign minister and the Russian ambassador, he gives more fuel to the fire.So, I think…

— Susan Collins

The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted…

— Edward Gibbon

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the…

— Simone Weil

It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love…

— Fred Rogers

Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat…

— Ronald Reagan

The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we…

— Bruce Lee

Buy ammunition! Remember that a man cannot have too many books, too many wines, or too much ammunition. Our adversaries on the…

— Jeff Cooper

The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is…

— Ludwig von Mises

Of course, the latter made no secret of his attitude toward the Jewish people, and when necessary he even took the whip…

— Adolf Hitler

Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak…

— Barack Obama

Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.

— Nikolai Bukharin

Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.

— Anonymous

If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.

— David Mitchell

[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.

— Steven Weinberg

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

— George Bernard Shaw

I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in…

— Samuel Rutherford

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

— Samuel Johnson

Angela Merkel and the CDU are not our political adversaries. The CDU and the CSU are sister parties.

— Horst Seehofer

You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing…

— Cyrus Vance

Seeing me before him, / The adversary attacks, / But by that time / I am already standing / Safely behind him.

— Morihei Ueshiba

“The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent.”

— Alain de Botton

With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.

— Annie Jacobsen

I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with…

— Guillermo del Toro

The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.

— Peter Gay