Opponents Quotes - Page 13

The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot his opponent, but he refuses to hate him. And he stands with understanding, goodwill at all times.

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

The innovator is not an opponent of the old; he is a proponent of the new.

the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.

...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

Schwarzenegger said last night on the show he expects his opponents to throw all kinds of dirt at him. And you know, it's started already. Today, they released the one thing that could really hurt Arnold. Turns out he once starred in a movie with Tom Arnold.

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.

Never quit politicking and never underestimate your opponent.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

The quality of people you have around you as a manager is so vital. There are various factors that influence that process; fitness, form and the tactical approach to your opponent are all areas I review on a daily basis.

But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!

For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in the right a thousand times over, to be defeated by a stronger opponent or a stronger coalition.

I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out.

You have to learn the opponent psychologically inside out and mental strength is one of the important makers. You're either gonna break it or make it.

You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.

You know, you can't always criticize without somebody being at the end of the stick. And she perhaps did not always grant credit to her opponents for their motives, any more than they granted credit to her for hers.

Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole.

Preparing for another opponent isn't very glamorous. But it's Hollywood. You want to see the fun parts. The meeting rooms are not super fun.

I incorporate different styles that work for me. I could easily change my style depends on my opponent.

There's no point in killing an opponent... There's no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every day of the remainder of their sad and wretched life, is something to treasure.