“If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.” IfsWayShouldWarStrongForceLinesPrinciplesMilitaryPolicyPositionResistanceOpponentsClimbsRetreatLadders Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.” PositionCapableArguingOpponentsApologetic Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of possibilities, and break them into dichotomies, assigning one group to one pole and the other to an opposite end, with no acknowledgment of subtleties and intermediate positions and nearly always with moral opprobrium attached to opponents.” EndsMoralBreakIssuesGroupsPossibilityPositionSolutionsOppositesComplexesExtremesTendenciesOpponentsVulgarSubtletyAmusedContinuumDichotomyAcknowledgment Book:The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
“There is no question that, if you look at name recognition and celebrity, my opponent is far-and-away ahead. I think that if you put my beliefs in one column and her positions in another column, I am almost convinced that a majority of the people in the Democratic Party would support my beliefs.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksNamesBeliefPartySupportPositionMajorityDemocraticConvincedRecognitionOpponentsDemocratic PartyColumns Author:Jonathan Tasini
“Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.” KindMeanDifferentActionPoliticalUsedResultsPowerMilitaryPositionSourceWeaponsCapacityPoliceIncludingChosenDestroyedOpponentsRepressionOpposing Author:Gene Sharp
“If the rest of his foursome are bunched directly behind his ball, or assume the foetal position with their backs to the tee, the golfer is reminded that his drive tends to be erratic. More cruel yet is for his opponent to stand directly in the projected line of flight, as the safest place to be.” IfsLinesBehindsPositionBallsAssumingGolfFlightOpponentsGolfersTeesErraticFoursomes Author:Eric Nicol
“When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport.” TryingArtTwoBeautifulWinningSportsStudyTroublePositionMethodChessAdmireCombinationOpponentsKnightsBishopsEndgame Author:Ashot Nadanian
“Playing people and position post-flop are definitely my strengths. When I get into a hand, I'm aggressive but I'm also paying attention to my opponent's betting patterns.” PeopleHandsAttentionPositionPatternsPostsPay AttentionOpponentsAggressiveBetting Author:Daniel Negreanu
“I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.” GivingTryingLongIdeasMovingGamesStrongBehindsPiecesPositionWeaknessOpeningOpponentsScopeVariationPawnsCramps Author:Bobby Fischer
“Unfortunately, every American citizen takes the same position... that we don’t like negative advertisements. But they work! And, as you see, many a candidate has prevailed by tearing down the reputation of an opponent in a more advantageous position.” PositionCitizensNegativeReputationOpponentsCandidatesAdvertisementsAmerican Citizens Author:Jimmy Carter
“Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme.” YearsGivenSexPositionDefinitionsExtremesRadicalLabelsOpponentsExtremist Author:Dennis Prager