Lectio 78.
Expositio Canonis Missae
“He who fight monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.”
Variant: A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.
Source: Scorpia Rising
“Whoever fights, whoever falls,
Justice conquers evermore.”
Voluntaries
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
2019
Source: https://www.bbc.com/persian/iran-features-50700064
Source: https://farsi.khamenei.ir/others-note?id=44276
“The poverty and unemployment which we came into existence to fight have been largely conquered”
Source: 1959, Nicholas Timmins: The five giants: a biography of the welfare state. HarperCollins, 1995. Pp 254-255
Source: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VII Further Observations on Homer <!-- p.241, 1965 paper -->
Context: The warriors who constituted the aristocracy were awarded land grants to recompense them for their share in conquering the country. Both in Greece and in Israel, the theory of society was basically the same. The conquerors were the fighting and ruling stratum; the conquered natives were degraded to the labouring class. In Sparta the latter were called Helots. In Israel the Canaanites were the "hewers of wood and the drawers of water."
Hardball with Chris Matthews, August 4, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC_3IxKcQIA October 23 rally
2010s, 2016, October
Hardball with Chris Matthews, November 16 2004.
2000s
“Being brave doesn't meanhaving to fight alone.”
Source: Sphinx's Princess
"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)
