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There's no reality without battles and no future without fights.
War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.
Not all battles are fought with weapons.
Put two macho groups together and give the first desperation and numbers, and the second truncheons and protective clothing, and the result is like a laboratory civil war.
In a conflict doesn't win who has more weapons but who knows best use for them
When I played 'Survivor', I sat back many times and marveled that no one had gotten into a real physical altercation. With all the backbiting, lies, and lack of food, a fight didn't sound far off base, considering the strained and fragile emotions.
What one side considers a defense the other considers a threat. In the vortex of the struggle, each is trapped by his own fearful outlook and by his fear of the other; each moves and is moved within a circle both vicious and lethal.
Human violence as a kind of fractal - self-similar on all scales from bar fight to system-wide war. The buildup of insults and lost face that swelled over the course of an evening or a century. The shoving and shoving back, neither side sure they wanted to escalate and uncertain how to back down.
Fighting is art and there is nothing more beautiful than the painted canvas of just totally kicking someone's ass.
How we
never, ever fight.Fight-- Ally Condie
As much as I enjoy a fight, I cannot always indulge myself, and just now I had more weighty matters to occupy my time than spilling the blood of strange warriors.
Remember this well. There are two kind of fights. As long as we place ourselves in battle, we must always know the difference: fights to defend life ... and fights to defend pride ...
I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.
There's something very ... spiritual about fighting. It's physically very challenging. It's for killing people, after all, so it's taught me how to look at something head on. It's like living - confronting something. Everything for me came from films.
A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
We fight because we fail to understand why really we fight
A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic ... or more utterly moronic?
What you doin' with this gun?
It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.
This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.
It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement
Is there a war on cops? Is there a war on the Black man? Who is going to call a cease fire?
Fighting is never good. But sometimes necessary.
Though hand-to-hand combat has become rare, much modern warfare continues to involve physical strain such as those who have not engaged in it can scarcely imagine.
For the first time in my life, I was in a shoot-out. A real, honest-to-goodness shoot-out with a bad guy. And, apparently, we both sucked.
I don't like to fight.
Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.
A fight forms a powerful and strange bond between men.
We find ourselves constantly in battle in the vast human theaters of conflict.
A good fight starts with the understanding that in order for a fight to be successful, both people have to win.
The duel may go on for long, but the self-defense often wins over the self-reproach.
I don't fight people for fun.
Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?
My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.
On the battlefield of ideas, winning requires moving toward the sound of the guns.
Sports is like a war without the killing.
I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.
Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.
Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.
In prison Shadow had learned there were two kinds of fights: don't fuck with me fights, where you made it as showy and impressive as you could, and private fights, real fights, which were fast and hard and nasty, and always over in seconds.
One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.
The kind of match where your opponent wanted you to win while you wished for nothing other than to die at his hands.
The best fights are the ones we avoid.
Are they fighting or having a bookclub?
Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.
Knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do.
We fight because we fail to really understand why we fight
Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.
Part of why I was attracted to the idea of owning a gun was self-defense, and part of it was that I've been fascinated by guns since I was a little kid, and I want to play with them. It seems like a lot of fun.
The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.
When you are in a combat situation, you mustn't let your mind be polluted by emotions like fear and anger. Simply accept the situation and react, even if you are facing impossible odds. Keep your head clear and you will be one step ahead of your attackers.
You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.
It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling.
How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.
There's a set of unspoken rules we live by when it comes to fighting. We can't help it. It comes from living in a civilized world. Even when you're fighting your hardest, somewhere deep down, you know how far you can go. But today the rules are gone. Today I fight not to win, but to destroy.
There is only one way to fight, and that's dirty. Clean gentlemanly fighting will get you nowhere but dead, and fast. Take every cheap shot, every low blow, absolutely kick people when they're down, and maybe you'll be the one who walks away.
We play a violent sport.
Let's go kick some ass.
Civilly.
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
I don't want to watch people fighting.
Confrontation was the stuff of daily life.
Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.
If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.
I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.
Close-up violence
it's like a tornado hitting you at 200 mph without warning. It takes all your preparation, fierceness to survive.
I like a good old-fashioned fistfight if people are pissed off at each other. I just feel like if you're really mad and want to have a fight, then put your dukes up.
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.
Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds
There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you.
It was a little skirmish across a century.
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.
Conflict is always fun to play.
If there were no guns, we couldn't talk about it, ... You turn on TV, you see soldiers marching with guns. We only talk about things that's happening.
What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?
Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.
Fight the fighters, not their wars.
It's time to duel!
Fights begin and end with handshakes.
We have a saying back home. It's time to duel!
Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.
War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.
The only battle that matters is the one within.
I would love to fight whoever is the best. I want to test myself on how much I can achieve ...
In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.
You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would.
It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end of a battle combatants could meet [ ... ] and drink and talk.
Sometimes battles are unavoidable.
No wise man ever took a handgun to a gun fight.
Now what happens?" asked the man in black.
"We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone."
"You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?
fierce lovers.
and battle warriors
both come
from the same place.
there is bound
to be,
some bloodshed.
I'm thinking: am I supposed to fight, and what do I fight with, and whom am I fighting?
When two warring people face each other, the war of words jumps beyond the subject. The subject remains no more central to the arguments.
There are some people who like nothing better than a good, regular quarrel.
In any hand-to-hand combat, there's a constant back-and-forth of blows,
Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.
When two enemies are talking, they're not fighting.