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"When you go to plant a flag on the visiting team's field, it's a form of taunting, .. What message are you sending when you spear it into the turf of your defeated opponent?."
"There's no doubt Milos Raonic will be a very tough final opponent, after all he beat [ Roger] Federer on Centre Court to get there."
"Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct."
"There's no point in killing an opponent... There's no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every day of the remainder of their sad and wretched life, is something to treasure."
"One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class."
"Confronting the US made him [Hugo Chavez] a target for demonization. Partisan and/or lazy journalism exaggerated his faults, ignored his virtues, and downplayed the influence of strident and on occasion anti-democratic opponents. The flip side is his anti-imperialist posturing so dazzled his cheerleaders they overlooked his flaws, flaws which worsened over time, and they created their own caricature."
"Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents."
"The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness."
"No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side."
"No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them."
"That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence."
"Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority."
"A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust."
"I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought I could outsmart them."
"If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect."
"A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?"
"A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents."
"A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents."
"Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties."
"As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples."
