Richelle Mead Quotes

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth.

If we must fight, then by God we will fight. And I hope they [the Croats and Bosnians] will not be so crazy as to fight against us. Because if we don’t know how to work well or to do business, at least we know how to fight well.

I will fight anyone. I will always fight anyone, anywhere.

I've been in many street fights. I fought street fights for my friends to protect them.

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

I've done a lot of fighting in my time, and I'm down to do some more. I don't want to, but you know, there's just certain things that you can't sit down and take.

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

No one will have mercy on those who cannot defend themselves in the Middle East.

We are much in the position of those who love peace so much that they are ready to fight for it.

All armed prophets have been victorious and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.

I shall hurl the first spear at the foe. If any man can stand at rest while Attila fights, he is a dead man.