Adversary Quotes

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.

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

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.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

You have to work more than your adversary.

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

My adversary is the world of finance.

Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

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.

We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

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.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

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.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.

The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world.

It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms.