Opponents Quotes - Page 12

One should respect a defeated opponent!

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of possibilities, and break them into dichotomies, assigning one group to one pole and the other to an opposite end, with no acknowledgment of subtleties and intermediate positions and nearly always with moral opprobrium attached to opponents.

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.

There is luck in chess. My opponent was lucky that he was playing against an idiot.

In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.

The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on putting forward a ‘case’, obscuring the opponent’s point of view and avoiding awkward questions.

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If you won’t be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered.

If your opponent is tapping, your technique is good. If he is not tapping, your technique sucks.

You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

It's not enough to win the tricks that belong to you. Try also for some that belong to the opponents.

Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.

My opponents will do anything they can to distract from their own flawed candidate. Bob Menendez is under federal criminal investigation. As far as I know, he is the only candidate for Senate under federal criminal investigation.

The religious opponents of Christian conservatives are presented as moderates.

To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.

What is Love compared with holing out before your opponent?

We've been told by the people on the other side who don't like the campus sexual assault movement that these are all "he-said, she-said" cases. Quite rightly, they say campus procedures are often very flawed, the investigation methods are not that good, and we aren't sure what we can trust. [Opponents say that] it seems like a lot to call somebody a rapist if they haven't gone to a criminal trial.