Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Robeson

Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.

Paul Gauguin

I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior.

Patrick McGoohan

The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself.

Patrick Ness

To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

Parker Stevenson

In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.

Lilly Singh

If I could give advice to anyone, it would be that sometimes the best way you can fight a problem - and this is going to be a little bit controversial - is to not address it.

Lilly Singh

Fighting for happiness is the hardest thing you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.

Leon Trotsky

Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly, stopping at nothing. The execution of the Tsar's family was needed not only in order to frighten, horrify, and dishearten the enemy but also in order to shake up our own ranks, to show them that there was no turning back, that ahead lay either complete victory or complete ruin.

Leon Trotsky

There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.

Lauren Oliver

Despite the fact that Raven and Tack are often fighting, it's impossible to imagine one without the other. They are like two plants that have grown around each other - they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time.

Lauren Oliver

We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.

Lauren Oliver

I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

Larry Wall

For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

L. Frank Baum

An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre.

L. Neil Smith

Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to fight back with awkward agricultural tools the way they once could with hunting implements, became victims, first, of itinerant plunderers, then of bandits settling down beside them to become the governments we know today.

Paul Signac

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

Paul Stewart

Will you stand up an fight? he wondered bitterly. Or do you intend to remain on your knees for ever?

Patricia Richardson

The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

Patricia Velasquez

We [Latinos] must be proud. We have the same rights in the U.S. as anybody else. Instead of crying and getting upset about visa problems and having our families come join us, go fight for your rights. Make yourself a productive individual in the society.

Lyle Alzado

I never met a man I didn't want to fight.

Lyman Abbott

Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within.

Lykke Li

Because you're a woman, the music industry puts you in another corner. I want to be fighting with the men. I want to be amongst the men, topless, throwing things onstage. Pitchfork: Whe

Lucille Roybal-Allard

I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.

Lucretius

Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.

Louis Farrakhan

[Bernie] Sanders is fighting against a system. He sounds good. The system is rotten to the core.

Louis Farrakhan

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.

Lorraine Bracco

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.

Lizzy Caplan

I usually don't know how to fight hard for roles. I've certainly sent a passionate letter or two ... which always leads nowhere.

Margaret Oliphant

Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.

Margaret Mahy

I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.

Michael Jackson

Yeah, they are loyal, women. They have been loyal. They are activists. They will fight you about me.

Michael Jackson

My fans are activists they will fight with you to defend me.

Michael Jackson

But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human.