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opponents
«Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| Keywords:
assassination, Caesar, governing, opponents, remarkable, resort, resort to, Rome, ruler
«What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| About:
Belief,
Conviction,
Danger,
Evil,
Extremes,
Injustice,
People
| Keywords:
extreme, extremist, extremists, intolerant, intolerant of, objectionable, opponents
«The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| About:
Genius,
Leadership
| Keywords:
belonged, category, Category As, in the same category, Leader of, must have, opponents
«Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| Keywords:
depression, economic, economic power, fabulous, honored, opponents, political power, possessing, worldwide
«The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
opponents, statesman, supporter, supporters, The opposition
«Men, quite ordinary men, will compel children to look on while their mothers are raped. In pursuit of political aims men will submit their opponents to long years of unspeakable anguish»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
aims, anguish, compel, look on, opponents, raped, submit, unspeakable
«I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
birth, birth control, increasing, kept, opponents, population, populations, prefer, pretend, suppose
«MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing.So plain the advantages of machination It constitutes a moral obligation, And honest wolves who think upon't with loathing Feel bound to don the sheep's deceptive clothing. So prospers still the diplomatic art, And Satan bows, with hand upon his heart. --R.S.K.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
advantages, baffle, baffles, baffling, bows, clothing, constitutes, deceptive, diplomatic, Don, donning, employed, honorable, loathing, machination, machinations, moral obligation, obligation, Open and, opponents, plain clothes, prospers, Right Thing, Satan, wolves
«The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathizes with their just feelings»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
advocate, advocated, advocating, arguments, convince, opponents, sympathized, sympathizes, sympathizing, The Advocate, The First Duty, understands
«The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
analytic, attaches, captive, dispute, dominates, drag, hinder, Inside the, opponents, overvaluation, patients, psychotherapist, socially, technique, threefold, untamed, wage