#adversary

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

#elected #face #finance #governs #name

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. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#adversary #compromise #conflicting #deprived #due

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

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

— Ehud Olmert

#against #always #any #defend #israel

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

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson

#been #conditioned #passing #see #time

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. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#against #any #citizens #conspiracy #each

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

— Piers Anthony

#comprehend #dangerous #his #most #opponents

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. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#almost #another #because #countenance #elements

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#adversary #battle #strategy #war #strategy

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

— William Godwin

#ally #genius #learning #much #proper