Never fight an inanimate object.
—P.J. O'Rourke
I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
—Abbie Hoffman
All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.
—Emma Goldman
The days are too short even for love; how can there ever be time for quarreling?
—Margaret Gatty
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting… but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.
—Kurt Vonnegut
My conscience aches, but it's going to lose the fight.
—Allanah Myles
In a quarrel, each side is right.
—Yiddish folk saying
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
—Phyllis Diller
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
—Josh Billings
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it.… It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
—Erica Jong
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
—Charles Caleb Colton
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham Lincoln
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
—Jean Racine
Flowers… put up no resistance to attack, suffer evil rather than inflicting it, imitate carnal love, multiply without fighting, and die without complaining.… They have realized the dream of Buddha: to desire nothing, to tolerate everything, to be absorbed in oneself to the depths of the unconscious will.
—J. Rambosson
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
—Blaise Pascal