#adversary

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. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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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. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#authoritarianism #begin #conviction #corruption #defeating

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

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson

#been #conditioned #passing #see #time

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. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#cannot #him #his #king #legally

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

— Howard Staunton

#cannot #captured #his #king #man

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

— Martin Heidegger

#begins #centuries #come #glorified #know

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

— Piers Anthony

#comprehend #dangerous #his #most #opponents

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#beware #patient #wrath

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

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#adversary #against #deterrent #meant #nuclear

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. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#argument #armed #blithe #calls #come