S. E. Hinton Quotes

I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

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.

It's unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you've got to go and try to dismantle this guy.

My voice is still for war.

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.

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

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

Repel force by force

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.

Fighting is what I do.

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

You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said.

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

Usually, it is man who attacks; as for me, I defend myself, and I often capitulate.

If we have to go to war, we will.

If somebody was sending rockets into my house, where my two daughters sleep at night, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that, and I would expect Israelis to do the same thing.

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.

In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.