Quotes with faction-fighting

Quotes 81 till 100 of 116.

  • Bob Ainsworth The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • C. J. Cherryh The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • André Malraux There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Bob Kerrey There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.
    Bob Kerrey
    American politician (1943 - )
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  • Alain de Botton There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Bill Kristol There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • George Orwell To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Aslan Maskhadov Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.
    Aslan Maskhadov
    Chechen politician (1951 - 2005)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Napoleon Hill Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Thomas Hobbes War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Adam Ferguson We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.
    An Essay on the History of Civil Society
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • T. S. Eliot We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Bainbridge Colby We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Anna Lindh We need new partnerships in fighting terrorism and building peace.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Anne Rice We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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