Veronica Roth Quotes

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

We are all fighters, every single person who walks this earth is a fighter, everything that lives. To live is to fight. And we just fight in different arenas.

That's why I love fighting, because I get to have a big battle every couple months to make up for the little battles I have to forfeit every day

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

I've been fighting my whole life.

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

I think the best thing to say is that I was born to fight.

It seems like I have been fighting someone, something, someplace, in some manner, my whole life.

I've been fighting for a long time.

I've been around. I've fought in the big fights.

I've been fighting in people's backyards my whole life.

My job is fighting.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

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

I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.

We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!

I always enjoy myself fighting in Mississippi. I enjoy myself fighting anywhere.

Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.

Every person you meet is waging his or her own war against a callous universe that is plotting against them.

In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers

We sometimes feel the shadows have got hold of us, the shadows of evil. But still, it's up to us to fight.