Adversaries Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“It is no longer necessary to resort to the power of a state in order to inflict heavy losses on your enemy, since a…

— Tzvetan Todorov

We are not defeated by adversity but by the loss of the will to strive.

— Senora Roy

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

— Neil Gaiman

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in…

— Victor Davis Hanson

It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.

— Sheryl Sandberg

There are people that don't need to run towards adversity. They grew up in circumstances where it's forced upon them. Other people lead, pushier…

— Robert Greene

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

— Benjamin Disraeli

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

— Hideki Tojo

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is easier to brave and threaten, than to conquer an enemy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves…

— Arthur Golden