Quotes about Opponent

I immediately regretted that last point because I have discovered that in discussions it never helps to take a morally superior tone to one's opponent.

The despicable modern resort to playing the victim card or charging one's opponent with being "phobic" in one way or another was not for Paul. If

if the enemy goes undetected and is not exposed, he will gain the advantage by default.

Then each man grabbed his opponent by the head and thrust his sword into his opponent’s side, and they all fell together. So this place, which is in Gibeon, is called Helkath-hazzurim.

and each one struck down his opponent. So the Arameans fled, with the Israelites in pursuit. But Ben-hadad king of Aram escaped on horseback with the cavalry.

May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.

He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.

who ought to appear before you and bring charges, if they have anything against me.

A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

The anonymous1 author wrote, "Wherefore play the game of life warily, for your opponent is full of subtlety, and take abundant thought over your moves, for the stake is your soul.

If our opponent believes nothing of divine revelation, there is no longer any means of proving the articles of faith by reasoning, but only of answering his objections--if he has any--against faith. Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.