Fighting Quotes - Page 32

• It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Responsibility, Triumph

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• If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.

  Chaka Khan

  World, Fields, Fighter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My opinion is that somebody certainly has the right to do cartoons that make fun of somebody else's religion. But to reprint them just to provoke a fight and just to provoke it like thumbing your nose at someone else and going, "What are you gonna do about it?"

  David Byrne

  Fun, Cartoon, Noses

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

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• I don't think action for action's sake is so fun, but when it helps tell the story, I love doing a good fight scene.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Fun, Thinking, Stories

  "Comic-Con: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, and Director Rian Johnson Talk LOOPER and Turning Gordon-Levitt Into Bruce Willis with Prosthetics". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• I definitely learned to embrace the quiet moments onstage from Garry Shandling - relaxing and not fighting with the crowd, not raising your voice, not ever trying to win them over.

  Judd Apatow

  Winning, Quiet Moments, Voice

  Judd Apatow (2015). “Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy”, p.414, Random House

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• If you believe that you have nothing to fight for, that just means the people in power, and the people with money, can sneak anything into your life. Everything can be taken away from you.

  Jenny Hval

  Believe, Taken, Mean

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Norway is pretty forward thinking in terms of gender equality, but we don't seem to practice it as well as we think. I'm constantly thinking: How much power have we really gained? We have to keep fighting to even keep what we've fought for already.

  Jenny Hval

  Thinking, Practice, Norway

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• People say to me, you have not got stage fright. And if I haven't got stage fright, then I'm going to be comfortable within myself, and then something - I've always been that way and so I'm fighting to get away from that fear.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  People, Way, Stage

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike.

  Robert Graves

  Hate, Roots, Fruit

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight.

  William Booth

  Hungry, Revival, Lost Girl

  "To the General" by Charles Coller. All the World magazine, p. 169, April 1906.

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• The women has her own battlefield with every child she brings into the world she fights a battle for the nation

  Adolf Hitler

  Children, Battle, World

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• Just to clear the record ive never turn down a mma fight against anyone and never will.

  Jon Jones

  Mma, Records, Clear

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• Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves.

  Peter Drucker

  Two, Body, Unions

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The New Society: The Anatomy of Industrial Order”, p.180, Routledge

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• Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that of the industrial society - and that the basic principles on which the Nazis base this attempt are also in no way confined to Germany, we do not know what we fight for or what we fight against... The war is being fought for the structure of industrial society - its basic principles, its purposes, and its institutions.

  Peter Drucker

  War, Essence, Civilization

  "The Future of Industrial Man". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1942.

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• In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.

  Natan Sharansky

  Evil, Needs, World

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• The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.

  Orson Scott Card

  Thinking, Funny Things, Dying

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.235, Macmillan

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• We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

  Doris Lessing

  Truth, Stupid, Men

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor!--don't they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men's fields! Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields!

  George Meredith

  Past, Men, Two

  George Meredith (1862). “Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads”, p.89

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• Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think truth is absolute and those who think truth is relative. He is fighting that war with everything he has.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  War, Thinking, Ideas

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior.

  Paul Gauguin

  Men, Behavior, Daring

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.

  Pete Seeger

  Home, People, World

  NPR: Weekend Edition, July 2, 2005.

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• If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.

  Aldo Leopold

  United States, Opinion, Wilderness

  Letter to Wallace Grange, digicoll.library.wisc.edu. January 03, 1948.

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• In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?

  Maxim Gorky

  Children, War, People

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• The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

  Jean Genet

  Past, Mad, Reasoning

  Jean Genet (1960). “The Balcony: (Le Balcon) a Play in Nine Scenes”

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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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