“I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.”

“Glory, built
On selfish principles, is shame and guilt.”

William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist

“Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.”

José Rizal book Noli Me Tángere

“I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.”

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary

“He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity and her servility, will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.”

Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904) Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading suffragette

“Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

“Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams — Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.”

E. B. White (1899–1985) American writer

“The temptations of resentment and hatred are what people have to fight with all the time.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

“Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.”

Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800) Russian military commander

“I indicate to the Leader of the Opposition that the government is not dying of shame—my father did not die of shame. What the Leader of the Opposition should be ashamed of is his performance in this parliament and the sexism he brings with it.”

Julia Gillard (1961) Australian politician and lawyer, 27th Prime Minister of Australia