The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.
The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.
If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
I definitely miss the rush from wiping out an opponent.
If youve got physical weaknesses, youll lose. Nobody who gets cut easily can be a champion, however strong and talented he is. Boxers are trained to see and exploit their opponents weaknesses, they hit you on your wounds. Only the strongest survive in this sport.
For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in the right a thousand times over, to be defeated by a stronger opponent or a stronger coalition.
Figure out what your opponent wants you to do and try to do the opposite.
If I'm disrespectful to my opponent, how can I respect myself?
An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.
That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.
Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.
The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.
The American people are sick and tired of being afraid to speak their minds lest they be politically smeared as 'Communists' or 'Fascists' by their opponents. Freedom of speech is not what it used to be in America. It has been so abused by some that it is not exercised by others.
Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
Haven’t you ever noticed that people who win say it’s because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn’t the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.
the baresark loses all fear; his method is all-out attack, and invariably he takes his opponent with him even if he falls.
We become distracted from productive labors by our perceived opponents; we become focused on them and not on our larger calling to advance our nation; our debate becomes more about scoring points against an adversary and less about advancing our common cause.