C. S. Lewis Quotes

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

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.

I've been fighting since I was 15. I know what war is.

I don't believe in ideal places for a fight.

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

When you fight someone, you share the experience with that one person, and you’re never going to have that experience with someone else-even in another fight.

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I'm going to the war. They say to me daily, you are a prized fighter, what's the difference? And I like to say to those critics of the press and the others that there is one hell of a lot of difference in fighting in a ring and going to war in Vietnam.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

Fight the fighters, not their wars.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.

With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl around, and simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, offhand, become air, and non-extant--the little spitfires!

I'm thinking, 'OK, we're about to fight.' I'm like, 'We're about to get it on right here at the VMAs?

The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.

When a guy has his ego hurt, he's liable to jump into a fight he doesn't need to have.

In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.

"Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

The Iraqi troops and the Iraqi fighters are in control of all the places, as we have witnessed, no big change in that. We are fighting against them.

Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.

They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.

Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.