Adversaries Quotes

245 quotes by 199 authors

We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the genius… — Gerald R. Ford
It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary. — Georges St-Pierre
I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary. — Gro Harlem Brundtland
That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state… — Hugo Black
The women's movement and gay and lesbian movements always come together, and our adversaries are always the same because the male supremacist, patriarchal, ultra-right-wing, religious… — Gloria Steinem
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love… — Michel Foucault
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. — William Godwin
Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda. — Paul Davies
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. — Martin Heidegger
My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of… — Francois Hollande
My adversary is the world of finance. — Francois Hollande
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. — Samuel Johnson
Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. — Milan Kundera
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process. — Thurgood Marshall
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him… — Phyllis McGinley
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
Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies. — Evo Morales
Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself. — Jack Nicklaus
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral… — Ronald Reagan

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