Fighting Quotes - Page 26

• One of the most disruptive forces in the Church is arrogance. It is natural for people to bring their pride to Church, and try to prove their own greatness to others. This is an urge we need to constantly be fighting

  Dan Schilling

  Pride, Greatness, People

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• Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do.

  Marcel Theroux

  Hurt, Men, Ideas

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• Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

  John Bolton

  War, Lasts, Politician

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• Fighting, and the employment of force, even for the right cause, will not bring about good results. The oppressed who have right on their side, must not take that right by force; the evil would continue. Hearts must be changed. The rich must wish to give! Life in man should be like a flame, warming all with whom it comes into contact. The spiritually awakened are like to bright torches in the sight of God, they give light and comfort to their fellows.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Heart, Men, Light

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• The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Wall, Animal, Men

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• A peaceful man must fight For that which peace demands,— Freedom and faith, honor and right, Defend with heart and hands.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Peace, Heart, Men

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering fight-How few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right!

  Henry Van Dyke

  Evil, Confusion, Battle

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."

  L. Frank Baum

  Winning, Victory, Massacres

  The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer, January 3, 1891.

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• Researchers in the U.K. have developed a vegetable called "super broccoli" designed to fight heart disease. Not to be outdone, researchers in America have developed a way to stuff an Oreo inside another Oreo.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Heart, Vegetables, America

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• I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

  Auguste Rodin

  Age, Spirit, Contradiction

  "Rodin freed human spirit". The Des Moines Register, January 7, 2007.

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• Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.

  Steven Moffat

  Battle, Invasion, Today

  "Fictional character: The Doctor". "Doctor Who/ Day of the Moon", April 2011.

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• I am a thing not new, I am as old As human nature. I am that which lurks, Ready to spring whenever a bar is loosed; The ancient trait which fights incessantly Against restraint, balks at the upward climb; The weight forever seeking to obey The law of downward pull; and I am more: The bitter fruit am I of planted seed; The resultant, the inevitable end Of evil forces and the powers of wrong.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Spring, Law, Evil

  James Weldon Johnson, “Brothers”

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• The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.

  Lord Acton

  Evil, Giving, Temptation

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

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• As far as feminism is concerned ... the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially incompatible. They must be tamed. They must be tempered, 'cause men are naturally brutes. They fight. They sweat. They expel gas. They're dirty. They get into fights. Ewww! And we've got to somehow reprogram all of that out, because otherwise women will be in constant peril.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dirty, Men, Sweat

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• Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.

  Alain de Botton

  Order, Alcohol, Pay

  Alain de Botton (2009). “The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Coward, May

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.50, Heinemann

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• He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.

  Chinua Achebe

  Earth, Grime, Shows

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.11, Anchor

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• We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.

  Oliver Cromwell

  War, Men, Rights

  Oliver Cromwell (18??). “Oliver Cromwell's letters & speeches: with elucidations”

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• I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews, ban the critics. The readers should be alone with the books, and if anyone dared to say anything about them, they would be shot or imprisoned right on the spot. Yes, shot. A 100-year moratorium on insufferable literary talk. You should let people fight with the books on their own and rediscover what they are and what they are not. Anything other than this talk.

  Philip Roth

  Book, Years, People

  "'It No Longer Feels a Great Injustice That I Have to Die'". Interview with Martin Krasnik, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2005.

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• Believe, obey, fight.

  Benito Mussolini

  Believe

  Benito Mussolini (1949). “Memoirs, 1942-43: With Documents Relating to the Period”

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• Fight on land and sea All men want to be free If they don't never mind we'll abolish all mankind

  Peter Weiss

  Men, Sea, Land

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• Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.

  Ho Chi Minh

  War, Struggle, Independent

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• Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Hands, Caress, Poetry Is

  1972 'Poetry Lives', in the Sunday Times,13 Feb.

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• Hitler had the willpower of a demon and he needed it. If he didn't have such a strong willpower he couldn't have achieved anything. Don't forget, if Hitler had not lost the war, if he did not have to fight against the combination of big powers like England, America, and Russia - each one he could have conquered individually - these defendants and these generals would now be saying, 'Heil Hitler,' and would not be so damn critical.

  Hermann Goring

  Strong, War, America

  Remark on May 24, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• You learn these little tricks for stage fighting, which are really tiny and you wouldn't think of them, but it makes all the difference in the world. I love it!

  David Giuntoli

  Thinking, Differences, World

  Source: collider.com

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