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Heinrich Heine Quotes about Fighting

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You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.

You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.

Heinrich Heine
Writing, Fighting, Ideas

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

Heinrich Heine
Time, Fighting, Ideas
Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.90

He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

Heinrich Heine
Lying, Fighting, Cutting
Heinrich Heine (1866). “Pictures of Travel”, p.466

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