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God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!
— Heinrich Heine
I've twice run against women opponents, and it's a very different kind of approach. For those of us who have some chivalry left, there's a level of respect... You treat some things as a special treasure; you treat other things as common.
— Mike Huckabee
Christianity cannot subsist unless men know what Christianity is; and the fair and logical thing is to learn what Christianity is, not from its opponents, but from those who themselves are Christians. That method of procedure would be the only fair method in the case of any movement. [...] Men have abundant opportunity today to learn what can be said against Christianity, and it is only fair that they should also learn something about the thing that is being attacked.
— J. Gresham Machen
It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Saul Alinsky advised his followers to level sharp attacks against their opponents with the goal of goading them into rash counterattacks that would then discredit them. To avoid falling into this trap, those of us who are interested in civil discussion should prepare ourselves to refrain from reacting in fear or anger to those who disagree with us or even attack us.
— Ben Carson
Victory always assumes a counterpart defeat. We will never take our places as "more than overcomers" with nothing to overcome. We will never be victors without opponents.
— Beth Moore
We will never take our places as "more than overcomers" with nothing to overcome. We will never be victors without opponents.
— Beth Moore
Savagery in the quest for power is older than the Bible, but some of my opponents really hate my guts.
— Bill Clinton
You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.
— Aesop
We shall choose our adversaries, not the other way around.
— Paulo Coelho
I'm effective against a lot of teams, especially when you play man coverage.
— Mike Evans
Society and culture are therefore not true opponents of each other. Rather society is a species of culture that persists in contradicting itself, a freely organized attempt to conceal the freedom of the organizers and the organized, an attempt to forget that we have willfully forgotten our decision to enter this or that contest and to continue in it.
— James Carse