Fighting Quotes - Page 128

You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.

What is the use of fighting for the vote if we do not have a country to vote in? With that patriotism that has nerved women to endure torture in prison for the national good, we ardently desire that our country shall be victorious.

I'm hatin' my reflection, I walk around the house tryin' to fight mirrors, I can't stand what I look like

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago - until the Republicans brought them back.

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want that we will be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies.

The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint.

We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other.

Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond. If you fight it, you're stuck with it.

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

Fighting has opened the path to redemption for me.

You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe.

I want people to know that the fight is worth it.

Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.

This is not just a simple story of "money can't buy happiness." Or maybe that's just what it is. And if it is, why shouldn't it be? Because if this is something we are already supposed to know, then why don't we know it? Why do we chase and scrabble and fight for things to flaunt, why? Why do we reach for power over other people, and through the thin superiority of our possessions, believe we have it? Why do we let money make people bigger, and allow those without it to be made smaller? How did we lose the truth in the frantic, tribal drumbeat of more, more, more?

The permaculture's whole principle of having to work with nature, rather than fight against it, is not just an ethical restraint. It's also about realizing you're not the one in control. Nature is not only a nurturer but also a great destroyer.

I think in any organisation it's right to set out what you stand for, what you're fighting for and bring that together in one document so that people can see that the modern compassionate Conservative Party is in it for everybody - not just the rich

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.

When fighting clowns, always go for the juggler.

I write about the things that happen to us all. The things that are tough, the things that matter, from a loved one fighting an illness, to losing a job, being betrayed by somebody you trust, all parts of the human condition. No one is exempt from those things.

If you're an artist and you have dreams don't stop fighting because dreams really do come true.

Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.