Adversary Quotes

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary. (John C. Calhoun)
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 power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. View quote
Michel Foucault
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. View quote
Martin Heidegger
Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. View quote
Milan Kundera
Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice. View quote
Hanoi Hannah
Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy. View quote
George F. Kennan
We must make this campaign an exceedingly active one. Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength. A defensive campaign can only be made successful by taking the aggressive at the proper time. Napoleon never waited for his adversary to become fully prepared, but struck him the first blow. View quote
Stonewall Jackson
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 to be their adversary. State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them. View quote
Hugo Black
The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready to destroy a large portion of the population, and this usually conflicts with the political aim of the war and hence also violates a fundamental Clausewitzian principle. View quote
Anatol Rapoport
The United States is at present so demoralized and so corrupted that, like France and England, it need not be taken into consideration as a military adversary. View quote
Richard Walther Darré
If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in English and write their names and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars and pay taxes thereon, and would completely disarm the adversary. This you can do with perfect safety. And as a consequence, the radicals, who are wild upon negro franchise, will be completely foiled in their attempts to keep the Southern States from renewing their relations to the Union. (Andrew Johnson)
One of the surest ways of forming good combinations in war would be to order movements only after obtaining perfect information of the enemy's proceedings. In fact, how can any man say what he should do himself; if he is ignorant what his adversary is about? View quote
Antoine-Henri Jomini
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 a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion. View quote
Phyllis McGinley
Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary. View quote
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda. View quote
Paul Davies
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process. View quote
Thurgood Marshall
For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King. View quote
Howard Staunton
We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party. View quote
Josefina Vazquez Mota
I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success. View quote
Monte Irvin
Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other. View quote
Robert Teeter
So still was he, that but for the searching intellect which glittered in his full dark eye, you might have taken him for a carven image as he pondered his moves. His bearing was mild and that of a refined gentleman, and he dealt the most crushing blows on his adversary with an almost womanly ease and grace. (Paul Morphy)
The nobility... of the Argentine people, in this square and all the country's squares, causes us to offer our hand to the adversary, but this must not be taken as weak- ness. If it is necessary, the people, whose feelings I try to interpret as President of the nation, will be ready... to offer a hand, a gesture of peace with nobility and in a gesture of peace with honour, but they will also be ready to teach a lesson to anyone who dares to touch a square metre of Argentine territory. View quote
Leopoldo Galtieri
We allow American journalists in Singapore in order to report Singapore to their fellow countrymen...But we cannot allow them to assume a role in Singapore that the American media play in America, that is, that of invigilator, adversary and inquisitor of the administration. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
I can understand J. Edgar Hoover, because he wasn't inaccurate.... He said that we were the main threat. We were trying to be the main threat. We were trying to be the vanguard organization. J. Edgar Hoover was an adversary, but he had good information. We were plugged into all of the revolutionary groups in America, plus those abroad. We were working hand-in-hand with communist parties here and around the world, and he knew that. View quote
Eldridge Cleaver
In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself. View quote
Eric Cantona