#opponents

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents. ↗

— Frederick Scott Oliver

#end #engaged #life #means #men

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ↗

— Max Planck

#because #convincing #die #does #eventually

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out. ↗

— Max Planck

#die #does #gradually #happen #important

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. ↗

— Bobby Knight

#against #basketball #game #opponents #play

During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#community #community service #dallas #during #election

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#cause #dangerous #evil #extreme #extremists

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#appeals #emotional #fears #future #ideas

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#desperate #i #keep #never #opponents

The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#allowed #anything #call #coaches #ever

My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it. ↗

— Rob Simmons

#keeps #moves #moving #opponents #regulate