Top 100 Fought Against Quotes
#1. That man is my Arthur, a great warlord and a hero who fought against impossible odds to such effect that even fifteen hundred years later his enemies love and revere his memory.
Bernard Cornwell
#2. My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.
Nelson Mandela
#3. I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.
Paul Robeson
#4. She was still looking; I could pass as an Indian I thought. I
was part Indian too and that was the precaution I was taking from
getting mugged, a fact which I vehemently fought against back
home and was keen to adopt here. Gosh, I was a rotten hypocrite.
Dixy Gandhi
#5. I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.
Emanuel Celler
#6. I surely haven't only dealt with film people. As a lawyer, I also fought against evictions, or worked on leases - the unglamorous side of the business.
Giovanna Cau
#7. They could have fought against it, begged for another way or gone off the path in hopes of finding an easier passage. Instead, they looked upon the trail ahead, the rough ridge, now bound by thick snow, and they accepted the path they had chosen.
Sage Steadman
#8. In the old days the worst part of my depression used to be the astonishment it caused me, the scandalized way in which I fought against it. Nowadays, on the other hand, I accept it cheerfully enough, like an old familiar friend.
Simone De Beauvoir
#9. All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.
Harry S. Truman
#10. I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk.
Leonard Cohen
#11. You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.
Tom Hodgkinson
#12. When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.
Boris Spassky
#13. In America, I am brown; I'm 'of colour', so I would be offered Latin roles, and I've fought against that. I don't want to be put in a category, to be just offered the same sort of thing. For me, it's all about different roles, telling the stories of the great writers.
Santiago Cabrera
#14. Let me quickly remind you that the allegation of being mentally incapable is a tried and tested method of silencing women dating back hundreds of years, a weapon to discredit us when we fought against abuses and stood up to authority.
Tom Rob Smith
#15. I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.
Robert E.Lee
#16. Of countering it if that had been the only factor, since all non-rational inborn tendencies are a kind of disease which ought to be fought against.
Michel De Montaigne
#17. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination ...
Nelson Mandela
#18. All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all.
Vladimir Lenin
#19. You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face. It was always drowned out by 'I must' or 'I hope' or 'I need ... '
Paulo Coelho
#20. I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.
Harry Belafonte
#21. And I believe that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph again.
George Orwell
#22. For a time, the Hanseatics were well appreciated as honorable merchants who ensured quality and fought against unscrupulous practices. They were known as Easterlings because they came from the east, and this is the origin of the word sterling, which meant "of assured value.
Mark Kurlansky
#24. Never did I fight for the poor. I fought against the rich
which of course isn't at all the same thing. In any case, the fighting was the point. You don't fight to become free
to fight is to be free. A man with a gun and the will to use it can't be mastered, he can only be killed.
James Carlos Blake
#25. It bothers me. I've turned into the monster we fought against in the beginning." He
Holly S. Roberts
#26. The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.
Thomas Sowell
#27. Maybe I don't have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#28. I'd always fought against presenting radio really, because my father was a radio DJ in Australia. He's just recently retired. And I kind of didn't want to follow in his footsteps. But I suppose, as we all find as we become older, to some extent we do all become our parents.
Jarvis Cocker
#29. It is those same so-called experts who said we had no chance of winning the primary. It will be hard work, but we can win. And if those same people who fought against me work just as hard for me, we will win.
Christine O'Donnell
#30. I fought against it for months; but the best thing I ever did was when I surrendered my will, and let the will of God be done in me.
D.L. Moody
#31. Now that this destiny was about to happen, every instinct within him fought against it, realizing he had been fetishizing suicide.
Thomm Quackenbush
#32. Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.
Pope Urban II
#33. Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
Tariq Ali
#34. I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.
Philip Johnson
#35. I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer.
Virginia Woolf
#36. Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.
John O. Brennan
#37. Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#38. I have fought against spending. I have fought against special interests. I have fought for reform.
Barack Obama
#39. The tyranny exercised unconsciously on men's minds is the only real tyranny, because it cannot be fought against.
Gustave Le Bon
#40. The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
Zinedine Zidane
#41. The United States fought against the prospect of a Vietnam unified by the communist North. But once that unification became fact, the new and enlarged Vietnamese state became a much greater threat to communist China than to the United States. Such can be the ironies of history. Champa,
Robert D. Kaplan
#42. Such was the cost of dealing with the Romans: even when one fought against them, the stain of their violence licked and crackled at the soul like a fire about to engulf an entire forest.
Ruth Downie
#43. Prayer and holiness are learned in a similar way as commitments are made, habits are formed and battles are fought against a real opponent (Satan, in this case), who with great cunning plays constantly on our weak spots.
J.I. Packer
#44. When I hear the deepest truths I speak coming out of my mouth sounding like my mother's, even remembering how I fought against her, I have to reassess both our relationship as well as the sources of my knowing.
Audre Lorde
#45. I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.
John Galliano
#46. I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crack.
Richelle Mead
#47. The reason to have history is to be able to say, 'This is where you came from. This is what it cost. This is what happened to us. This is what we fought against. This is what we did when we won. This is who we are.
Glenn Beck
#48. All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.
David Cronenberg
#49. having someone I could belong to was a lure I'd always both fought against and gravitated to. I did not like the idea of being owned,
C.W. Gortner
#50. I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done okay, but I've always fought against it.
Michael Gambon
#51. We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
#53. What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
#54. For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.
Kurt Braunohler
#55. Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!
Abu Bakar Bashir
#56. I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.
Jack Nicholson
#57. Since I have fought against these Jewish-Soviet ideas in Germany, since I have conquered and stamped out this peril, I fancy that I possess a better comprehension of its character than do these men who have only to deal with it in the field of literature.
Adolf Hitler
#58. I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#59. That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.
Jesse Helms
#60. The holiest war is the one which is fought against the war industry!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#61. There were days when I hated politics. But I fought against hating the people on the other side because we were all in the same business - the business of building our country's future.
Susan Estrich
#62. When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.
Plutarch
#63. You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against.
Isabel Allende
#64. My first fight. I fought a girl that was a little bit heavier, a little bit more experienced and I was petrified because I didn't know what I was getting myself into. And I did really well against her and nobody believed it was my first fight.
Gina Carano
#65. The battle against the devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the devil is still alive and active in the world.
Pope John Paul II
#66. Certainly the soda companies, the junk food companies fought hard against this and today's agreement doesn't mean the battle is over, we still have to pass this bill.
Don Williams
#67. I might not survive Clare. She was truly my ultimate temptation. I never wanted anything more and yet fought so hard against it. But I knew I needed this. I knew she needed this. I had to start this off right. She deserved it, she deserved everything.
J.L. Berg
#68. Germans must fight Jews, that organized body of world criminals against whom Christ, the greatest anti-Semite of all time, had fought.
Julius Streicher
#69. I felt the joy of knowing that in some small way I had fought back against someone who wanted to rule me against my will. I said no.
Doris Mortman
#70. The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
Herodotus
#71. The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.
Pope Francis
#72. I have always been their rock. A mother's unconditional love is fervent enough to battle against the gates of hell, rise up from her knees and stand gallant, in spite of her gaping war wounds. If only they knew the battle fought and the flood of tearshed without having to endure such agony.
Terry A. O'Neal
#73. Mrs. O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there is no right and wrong, increasingly people are ruled by their passions and humanity is a tragedy waiting to happen.
Bill Murray
#74. We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation.
John E. Lewis
#75. ALL EXCUSES must be FOUGHT by taking ACTION against the THOUGHT. ~ Author Mammy Oaklee
Mammy Oaklee
#76. No race is more adept than humans at weaving a mask of excuses, at ultimately claiming good intent. And no race is more adept at believing its own claims. How many wars have been fought, man against man, with both armies espousing that god, a goodly god, was on their side and in their hearts? But
R.A. Salvatore
#77. A serious pacifist approach can't win wars against enemies whose only program is violence. That doesn't mean I think the US has fought terrorists so wisely most of the time since 9/11. But there are some enemies that need to be destroyed by force lest they destroy much much more.
Philip Gourevitch
#78. The muscles fought so long
To control against the pull of
One magnet to another magnet
Sara Quin
#79. I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.
Ronnie Spector
#80. What if every time you fought for love, you were fighting for the whole world? For the whole world - not against the whole world.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#81. The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.
Bruce Jackson
#82. If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.
Wilhelm Keitel
#83. Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Helen Keller
#84. I do not serve your personal issues, Morevna. I serve the People, and the People will have crimes against their body answered. You fought at Leningrad. So did I. Why should he be spared?'
'Somebody ought to be.
Catherynne M Valente
#85. The biggest problem for my generation is that people who were born years before us have no concept of us at all. There's a massive gap. I don't know why, but we were really like orphans. Those people competed against us, they hated us and fought for things, and yet they had no interest in our work.
Liam Gillick
#86. [O]ur War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
Earl Warren
#87. No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's
Thomas L. Friedman
#88. Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought
The better fight, who single hast maintain'd
Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.
John Milton
#89. I'm so American that I had grandfathers who actually fought a battle against each other.
Betty Parsons
#90. life was extraordinary. She fought her battle against breast cancer for five years but refused to stop living. She married the love of her life and they enjoyed every moment they had together. When she died, she was robbed not only because she was so young,
D.M. Hamblin
#91. Maccarinelli thinks he can use me to make a name for himself, but that is not going to happen. He has made his fame by fighting nobodies. I've fought all the way to the top against top contenders.
David Haye
#92. The world is in an eternal struggle against good and evil," he would say to me. "But the most important war is fought here." Ilyas would tap his chest. "It is not the barbarians, nor even the Druj, that we must fear the most, Nazafareen. It is the enemy within." I
Kat Ross
#93. He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.
Kurt Vonnegut
#94. Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#95. Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him.
[Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti,
Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]
Ovid
#96. Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant-"
"Meant!" she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which, in the crush, brought her against his chest as if they were still dancing. She fought backward for space. As if what were meant?"
"You," he said. "And me.
Laini Taylor
#97. Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was division among them. Why? Because a people united in faith are stronger than the bomb
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#98. Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.
Robert Winston
#99. It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.
Jack Nicklaus
#100. [History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.
Robert Staughton Lynd
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