There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.
I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.
The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.
We shall choose our adversaries, not the other way around.
Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do you wish to have all men your friends and benefactors? When shall your patience attain her crown if no adversity befalls you? If you are willing to suffer naught that is against you, how will you be the friend of Christ?
And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.
If the people of this religion [Islam] are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry and spill the blood of whoever confronts them with this question. They forbid rational speculation, and strive to kill their adversaries. This is why truth became thoroughly silenced and concealed.
If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world. . . , the most dangerous adversaries of science.
I think Barack Obama had the right idea [on negotiations with enemies], and the bottom line is that of course there have to be conditions. But, of course it doesn't do us any good to not talk with our adversaries.
The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermination would deprive him and whoever else remains alive from the uniqueness, the originality, and the capacity for insight that these enemies being human also have and could share with him. If we wish the death of our enemies, we cannot talk about the community of man. In the losing of the chance for dialogue with our enemies, we are the poorer.
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
You negotiate in bad faith if you do not forgive your adversary.
You have to work more than your adversary.
We really are immortal in the sense that Christ’s Atonement conquers death, both physical and spiritual. And provided we have so lived Today that we have claim on the Atonement’s cleansing grace, we will live forever with God. This life is not so much a time for getting and accumulating as it is a time for giving and becoming. Mortality is the battlefield upon which justice and mercy meet. But they need not meet as adversaries, for they are reconciled in the Atonement of Jesus Christ for all who wisely use Today.
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Most activists on the Left believe that they, not only their values, are morally superior to their adversaries. Therefore, coercing people to adhere to 'progressive' values is morally acceptable, even demanded.
Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.
