Ysabella Brave (1979) American singer
"Youtube Live? Album?" (3 November 2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWapPazv0j4
“Don't live to fight, fight to live.”
Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996
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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
William Booth (1829–1912) British Methodist preacher
As quoted in Revolution (2005) by Stephen Court & Aaron White .
“Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”
Ayn Rand book The Romantic Manifesto
The Romantic Manifesto (1969)
“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!”
Mary Harris Jones (1837–1930) Irish-born American labor and community organizer
Autobiography of Mother Jones (1925).
Context: Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!
“Those that live in the air have to fight in the air.”
David Attenborough (1926) British broadcaster and naturalist
"Meat-Eaters"
The Life of Birds (1998)
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer
The Art of Poetry on a New Plan (1761), vol. ii. p. 147.
The saying "he who fights and runs away may live to fight another day" dates at least as far back as Menander (ca. 341–290 B.C.), Gnomai Monostichoi, aphorism #45: ἀνήρ ὁ ϕɛύγων καὶ ράλίν μαχήɛṯαί (a man who flees will fight again). The Attic Nights (book 17, ch. 21) of Aulus Gellius (ca. 125–180 A.D.) indicates it was already widespread in the second century: "...the orator Demosthenes sought safety in flight from the battlefield, and when he was bitterly taunted with his flight, he jestingly replied in the well-known verse: The man who runs away will fight again".
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 32
