opponent quotes

It is impossibleto win gracefullyat chess.No man has yet said 'Mate!' in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

- A(lan) A(lexander) Milne
  Not That It Matters.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  'The Prevention of Literature', in Polemic,  Jan.

Science is a search for truthit is not a game in which one tries to best his opponent, to do harm to others.

- Linus Carl Pauling
  No MoreWar.