Adversary Quotes

• Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

  

  John Milton
  • God
  • Man
  • Design

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

  

  Nikolai Bukharin
  • Christian
  • Worst
  • Enemies

• A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Understand
  • Charges
  • Viewpoint

• Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Position
  • Defend
  • Adversary

• In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Hope
  • Peace
  • Britain

• A stroke of the sword that does not hit its target is the sword stroke of death; you reach over it to strike the winning blow. Your adversary's inititive having missed its mark, you turn the tables arround and get the jump on your adversary.

  

  Yagyu Munenori
  • Winning
  • Blow
  • Sword

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

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Value
  • Possession
  • Adversary

• We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.

  

  Carl Mydans
  • War
  • Control
  • Confront

• I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive.

  

  David Shapiro
  • Sitting
  • Productive
  • Negotiations

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Capacity
  • Conqueror
  • Incapacity

• When a foreign adversary knows that an American official has deceived or withheld vital information from our government, it creates a fundamental counterintelligence vulnerability that can render that official irreparably compromised.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Government
  • Information
  • Adversary

• 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.

  

  Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
  • People
  • Father
  • Brother

• The adversary would keep us busily engaged in a multitude of trivial things in an effort to keep us distracted from the few vital things that make all the difference.

  

  Ardeth Kapp
  • Effort
  • Difference
  • Adversary

• If we do not win the New Cold War on terms of our choosing, we will fight at a time and place chosen by our adversary, and the odds will be tilted against us.

  

  Edward Lucas
  • Odds
  • Cold War
  • Adversary

• He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Offense
  • Adversary

• 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 to build, which he has, he must also have the ability and the responsibility to preserve.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Responsibility
  • Gift
  • Almighty

• We have never in the history of our country been in a situation where an adversary, a foreign power, is working so hard to influence the outcome of the election, and, believe me, they're not doing it to get me elected. They're doing it to try to influence the election for Donald Trump. Now, maybe because he has praised Putin, maybe because he says he agrees with a lot of what Putin wants to do, maybe because he wants to do business in Moscow, I don't know the reasons.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Country
  • History
  • Situation

• When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.

  

  Eustace Budgell
  • Power
  • Victory
  • Adversary

• Historically, it is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will be doing, how they will react.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • React
  • Figure Out
  • Adversary