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Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again. -- Peter Drucker
An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so. -- Louis de Bernieres
Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest. -- Roy Barnes
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. -- Warren E. Burger
Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph. -- Nick Cave
The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational. -- Roger Mudd
Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power. -- Arundhati Roy
Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far government should go to the cross fire of adversarial review. -- Michael Ignatieff
A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts. -- Glenn Greenwald
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power. -- Glenn Greenwald
The wound-tight, travel-light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random. But if you stick too rigidly to a 'No Drama' rule in the White House, you risk keeping reality at bay. Presidencies are always about crisis management. -- Maureen Dowd
To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before. -- Chuck Klosterman
I've always been interested in an architecture of resistance - architecture that has some power over the way we live. Working under adversarial conditions could be seen as a plus because you're offering alternatives. Still, there are situations that make you ask the questions: 'Do I want to be a part of this?' -- Thom Mayne
Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses. Instead, it's a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats. -- Matt Taibbi
Mysterious can be cool, if you're in Hollywood and everyone's happy. But it can be really bad if people perceive that the financial interests are adversarial, that there's money versus people. A lot of Goldman Sachs people went into government, so at a time when there's a distrust of institutions, some of that reflects on us. -- Lloyd Blankfein
All forms of commerce are adversarial. -- Barry Diller
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself. -- Nathaniel Branden
Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action. -- Sol Stein
He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang. -- T.C. Boyle
Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves. -- Nathaniel Branden
I salute you for your courage, and I applaud your perseverance, and I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces. -- Alanis Morissette
It's possible for me to imagine a generation of people maybe two generations removed from you who might decide that we have an adversarial relationship with technology. -- Chuck Klosterman
In any walk of life, a positive, upbeat outlook trumps any adversarial act. Revenge is counterproductive. Unproductive emotions limit one's ability to move forward, to focus, to think positively, to act creatively. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for those who associate, even in an adversarial way, with the rich and powerful. -- Carolyn Hart
Why does the UK government ignore workplace bullying? Our system of democracy - government and law - is based on the adversarial model. To be successful in these fields, bullying behaviour is almost a prerequisite. -- Tim Field

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