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Adversary Quotes

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
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. Francois Hollande
Eric Cantona quote: "In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is..."
In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself. Eric Cantona
It just doesn’t make spiritual sense to suggest that the evil all lies “out there” with our adversaries and enemies, and none of it is “in here” with us—embedded in our own attitudes, behaviors, and policies. Jim Wallis
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity. Chinua Achebe
He stared down at the golden curls of the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness."You know," he concluded, after a while, "I think he actually looks like an Adam. Neil Gaiman
The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes. Joseph Smith, Jr.
Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking. Martin Heidegger
If you invest all your energy in economics, world commerce, parliamentarianism, military engagements, power and power politics, -if you take the quantum of intelligence, seriousness, will, and self-overcoming that you embody and expend it all in this one direction, there there won't be any left for the other direction. Culture and the state - let us be honest with ourselves - these are adversaries. Friedrich Nietzsche
Dan Brown quote: "never disperse your focus unless absolutely necessary. Face..."
never disperse your focus unless absolutely necessary. Face one adversary at a time. Dan Brown
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we..."
We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary. Friedrich Nietzsche
The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honor in challenging; it was ineptitude—a gray spread of cotton that deemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way. Ayn Rand
He would shoot his adversary in a duel, and go against a bear if need be, and fight off a robber in the forest--all as successfully and fearlessly as L---n, yet without any sense of enjoyment, but solely out of unpleasant necessity, listlessly, lazily, even with boredom. Anger, of course, constituted a progress over L---n, even over Lermontov. There was perhaps more anger in Nikolai Vsevolodovich than in those two together, but this anger was cold, calm, and if one may put it so,... Fyodor Dostoevsky
As long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress. Robert Kennedy
Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary. Tom Robbins

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