"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
— Mahatma Gandhi (GANDHI: An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die."
— Herbert Hoover

"Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?"
— Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995)

"War is over ... If you want it."
— John Lennon

"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"We'll all keep fighting, you know that right, Harry?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan."
— David Sedaris (Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim)

"You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance."
— Tamora Pierce

"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it."
— Bruce Lee (Tao of Jeet Kune Do)

"To live is to war with trolls."
— Henrik Johan Ibsen

"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
— George Carlin

"No one fights dirtier or more brutally than blood; only family knows it’s own weaknesses, the exact placement of the heart. The tragedy is that one can still live with the force of hatred, feel infuriated that once you are born to another, that kinship lasts through life and death, immutable, unchanging, no matter how great the misdeed or betrayal. Blood cannot be denied, and perhaps that’s why we fight tooth and claw, because we cannot—being only human—put asunder what God has joined together."
— Whitney Otto (How to Make an American Quilt)

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
— Alfred Adler

"When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right"
— Fiona Apple

"Im Dirty Dan! No im Dirty Dan! Im Dirty Dan! No im Dirty Dan! "
— Spongebob and Patrick

"The "Wet Tongue Gets Stuck To A Frozen Flagpole" attack!"
— Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 18)

"Fight only in direst need
Not for lust or petty greed
Honor those that do give birth
Respect them well for their full worth"
— Anne McCaffrey (Dragon Harper)

"If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter."
— Anchee Min (Red Azalea)

"He was in his chair in the corner, resting a second before he came out for the next round -- in a long line of next rounds. The thing he was fighting, you couldn't whip it for good. All you could do was keep on whipping it, till you couldn't come out anymore and somebody else had to take your place."
— Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

""War means fighting, and fighting means killing.""
— Nathan Bedford Forrest

"There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wickedness of a wicked species. They are so wicked that they must not be allowed. When you can be perfectly certain that the other man started them, then is the time when you might have a sort of duty to stop them. "
— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)

"A good Lycee is one that teaches patricide."
— Street Slogan Paris May 1968 - Epigraph to the novel SKATERS

"Keep on Fighting"
— Alexander Graham Bell

"The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting."
— Paulette Jiles (Enemy Women: A Novel)

"In fighting, people should have the courage to pick on someone their own size. Yes, I had a temper, but I always had a worthy and equal opponent. "
— Donna Schoenrock