Quotes with fight

  • We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.
  • The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.
  • Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
  • I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
  • Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist - a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist - only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.
  • And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
  • Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.
  • Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
  • Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
  • Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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  • Mahatma Gandhi First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Freeman Dyson A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bill Vaughan A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Napoleon A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Nelson Mandela Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Sun Tzu Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Alfred Adler It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Al Sharpton The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Lipton There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi To fight extremism, we will need to pursue a two-pronged strategy: both 'hard,' through stricter control of our borders and a more robust and technologically advanced security response, and 'soft,' based on better intelligence-gathering, working to return our mosques to their spiritual function and barring entry to foreign preachers.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Al McGuire When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
    Al McGuire
    American basketball coach and broadcaster (1928 - 2001)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Robert Townsend A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.
    Robert Townsend
    American businessman
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  • Heywood Broun A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Mark Twain A man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Jane Harrison A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Bradley Whitford Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Abraham Cahan Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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