Fighting Quotes - Page 30

• The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?

  Plutarch

  Enemy, Ships

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.385, 谷月社

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• After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. "Your advice," said Cicero, "were good if we were to fight jackdaws.

  Plutarch

  Eagles, Advice, Battle

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.246

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• To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, "Prithee," said Cleomenes, "give me cocks that will kill fighting.

  Plutarch

  Giving, Said, Hardy

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.221

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• I also told them of the manner in which I had been knocked down and dragged out, and that I didn't consider it a fair fight any how they could fix it. I put the ingredients in the cup pretty strong I tell you, and I concluded my speech by telling them that I was done with politics for the present, and they might all go to hell, and I would go to Texas.

  Davy Crockett

  Strong, Texas, Done

  "Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas". Book by Richard Penn Smith, 1836.

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• How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.

  David Hockney

  War, Army, Technique

  "Interview: Jasper Gerard meets David Hockney". www.thetimes.co.uk. October 02, 2005.

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• I must honor those who fight of their own free will, he said to himself. And I must try to imitate their courage by following my path as a pacifist, wherever it takes me.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Honor, Trying, Path

  "Christopher and His Kind". Book by Christopher Isherwood, p. 336, 1976.

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• You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you.

  Dave Matthews

  War, Monsters, Bigs

  "Song: 'Seek Up'". 1999.

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• I have seen something of the project of M. de St. Pierre, for maintaining a perpetual peace in Europe. I am reminded of a device in a cemetery, with the words: Pax perpetua ; for the dead do not fight any longer: but the living are of another humor; and the most powerful do not respect tribunals at all.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Powerful, Europe, Maintaining

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Patrick Riley (1988). “Leibniz: Political Writings”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

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• In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

  Martin Amis

  Aggressors

  Martin Amis (1987). “The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America”, Penguin Group USA

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• I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me.

  James Branch Cabell

  Garden, Battle, Losing

  James Branch Cabell (2003). “The Way of Ecben: A Comedietta Involving a Gentleman”, p.100, Wildside Press LLC

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• I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.

  James Branch Cabell

  Loyalty, Attitude, Heart

  James Branch Cabell (1948). “The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her”, Amereon Limited

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• I hope those who shouted "Fascist" and "Nazi" are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism.

  Enoch Powell

  Nazism, Born, Fascists

  "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 489), 1999.

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• Oh you tell me that there's danger to the land you call your own, And you watch them build the war machine right beside your home, And you tell me that you're ready to go marchin' to the war, I know you're set for fighting, but what are you fighting for?

  Phil Ochs

  War, Land, Watches

  "Song: What Are You Fighting For (Songs for Broadside)". 1976.

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• If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.

  Mao Zedong

  Weapons, Should, Oneself

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• To fight evil is to fight ourselves.

  Octavio Paz

  Evil

  Octavio Paz (1999). “Itinerary”

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• The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Mean, Hands, Enemy

  "Precepts and Judgments". Book by Ferdinand Foch, 1919.

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• The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.

  Brian Eno

  Vision, Reason, Radical

  "A Year with Swollen Appendices". Book by Brian Eno, 1996.

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• Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Scum Of The Earth, Moral

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5064, NYU Press

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• I hope you guys are up for a fight. I hope you guys are game because I haven't been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife - I didn't put up for that stuff just to come in second.

  Barack Obama

  Baby, Airplane, Games

  "Obama: ‘I Don’t Believe in Coming in Second’" by Jeff Zeleny, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. September 6, 2008.

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• The prophet Isaiah ... points out what will be the cause of this change; for he says that hatred, quarrel, and fighting will come to an end, because men will have a true knowledge of God. "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters which cover the sea" (Isa. xi. ver. 9) Note it.

  Maimonides

  Hurt, Men, Sea

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.11, 1190.

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• During a single week of July 1967, 164 Americans were killed and 2100 were wounded in city riots in the United States. We are truly fighting a two-front war and doing badly in both. Each war feeds on the other and, although the President assures us that we have the resources to win both wars, in fact we are not winning either.

  J. William Fulbright

  War, Winning, July

  "Fulbright: The Dissenter". Book by Haynes Bonner Johnson and Bernard M. Gwertzman, 1968.

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• Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies.

  Richard Branson

  Incentives, Want, Making Money

  The Sunday Mirror Interview, January 16, 2000.

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• Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.

  Rollo May

  Scene, Individual, Wells

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.176, W. W. Norton & Company

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• However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.

  Rollo May

  Covered Up, May, Injustice

  "Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence". Book by Rollo May, Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel, 1972.

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• The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.

  Bel Kaufman

  Art, Children, Reading

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.49, Open Road Media

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