John Wilkes Booth Quotes

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

I want peace and am willing to fight for it.

Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life.

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot.

We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.

We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill - and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

We want to resolve this peacefully but if we can’t, there are some things worth fighting for.

Bloody Ground

If the fight comes unsolicited, I am not willing to die meekly, to surrender without an effort. And that being so, am I still a pacifist?

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

I came to carry out the struggle, not to kill people.

There are some battles, no matter how much you don’t want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for.

In a war, you do whatever you have to do.

We believe that peace is hard-won, That sometimes it is necessary to fight for peace. But more than that, we believe that Justice is more important than peace.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

Violence is the weapon of the weak.

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.