“Those who start wars never fight them, and those who fight wars never like them.”
Michael Franti (1966) American rapper
Time to Go Home, Yell Fire! (2006)
“Those who are weak don't fight.
Those who are stronger might fight
for an hour.
Those who are stronger still might fight
for many years.
The strongest fight
their whole life.
They are the indispensable ones.”
"In Praise of the Fighters" (song)
Variant translation: There are men who struggle for a day and they are good.
There are men who struggle for a year and they are better.
There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still.
But there are those who struggle all their lives:
These are the indispensable ones.
As quoted in Democracy Unbound : Progressive Challenges to the Two Party System (1997) by David Reynolds; also quoted by Cuban musician and poet Silvio Rodríguez before his song "Sueño con serpientes".
Also quoted by Eduardo Galeano (Uruguayan writer) to describe Nestor Kirchner as he received the notice of his death.
The Mother (1930)
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Adolf Hitler book Mein Kampf
Variant: He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
Source: Mein Kampf
“Loves those who cry with their hearts, those who fight with honor and those who love for love.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Ama chi piange con il cuore, chi lotta con onore e chi ama per amore.
Source: prevale.net
“For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
“We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.”
Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540) Italian writer, historian and politician
Con disavvantaggio grande si fa la guerra con chi non ha che perdere.
Storia d' Italia (1537-1540)
“Learn to unite with those who fight for social causes, don't be a swallow alone in the crowd!”
Valter Bitencourt Júnior (1994) Brazilian poet and writer
Norman Cousins (1915–1990) American journalist
Editorial (1956) on importance of preservation rather than breaches of world peace.
Saturday Review
“And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 248
The Book of Disquiet
Original: E seja o nosso desprezo para os que trabalham e lutam e o nosso ódio para os que esperam e confiam.