Quotes tagged with "fight" (best)

Acier Silva: As a Magic Knight, once you decide you're going to step out onto the battlefield, you fight for the people and your kingdom without thinking twice about risking your life, right? In a similar way, once a woman has a child in her belly, she will try to protect that baby's life at any cost. That's what it means to be a mother.

Yang Wen-li: There has never been 'permanent peace' in human history. But, there have been plenty of ages with decades of peace. In short, my hope is, haughtily enough, for a few decades of peace in the future.

Iggy: We may live longer than old Nexus... but life doesn't mean living. I am for living. That's what we fight for.

Reinhard von Lohengramm: From here on, my battle is not just a matter for the battlefield. Political struggles. Imperial Court struggles. To avoid complications, both unending deceit and murder may be necessary.

Reinhard von Lohengramm: I'm afraid one hundred battles can't be one hundred victories.

Enrique Oliveira: Peace and freedom, lacking a sense of tension, cause people to degenerate. It's war that gives people a sense of vitality. War is what makes civilizations advance, and psychologically elevates people! Prolonged periods of peace and freedom will only decrease the vitality in an already decadent age. Doesn't your precious history proves that?
Yang Wen-li: What a wonderful observation. If only there was no one who had lost their life or family to war then maybe I'd even come to believe it. For people who prefer to take advantage of war and try to establish their on profit on other peoples' sacrifices, it's an unusually fascinating idea. And for people who show false patriotism to deceive other people as well.

Reinhard von Lohengramm: There is great satisfaction in fighting for the sake of gaining power, but it is joyless to fight for the sake of maintaining it.

Alexander Bucock: Commodore Fork! You're being rude. Accusing anyone who questions your ideas, or advises caution, of aiding the enemy – that's impolite.

Reinhard von Lohengramm: But even if my sister hates me, I can't turn back. If I retreat now from the road to leadership, who will restore the universe to unity and harmony? Shall I entrust the future of humanity to the high noble prodigals who care only about their own lineage? Or to demagogues who just move armies guided by sophistry and profit?

Yang Wen-li: I only studied a little history. I've learned that there are two currents of thought in human society. The opinion that there are things worth more than human life and the opinion that there is nothing preferable to life. When people begin to fight, it's on the pretext of the former type of people and it justifies the latter when they stop.

Khaidenn: Civilization did not create war. War created civilization.

Reinhard von Lohengramm: There must've been so many soldiers who continually won battles, but got left out of history because they lost their last battle.

Genkai: It's only after you think it's hopeless that the real contest begins!

Gen Nakaoka: Stay alive and look straight into the eyes of the people who forced the war and the atomic bomb on us! Don't give up!

Akira Akatsuki: I'm sure strength isn't just the power to fight. It's about thinking about each other, and trusting each other. That's how we can always stay tough, no matter what comes our way. That's what true strength is!

Asta: We're supposed to be a team! I protect you! You protect me! Then we'll be able to fight forever! An epic strategy, if I do say so myself!

Griffith: Those who die on the battlefield are not royalty, nobility, or commoners. They are the defeated who die.

Jorge: One battle had come to an end. However, as long as people live, they must continue to fight against something. And no one can forfeit his own fight.
Koenma: Jorge, what are you talking about with such a straight face?
Jorge: The narration!

Daikichi Nakaoka: That idiot! Does he really think it takes courage to go to war?! I don't care if people call me a coward or a traitor. What takes real courage is to value life — your own and everybody's!

Goemon Ishikawa XIII: You will fight fire with fire.

Kimie Nakaoka: They take us for complete fools! First they started the war without telling us anything... only that it was for the sake of the country and the Emperor... And now that Japan has lost, they tell us we have to "bear the unbearable and endure the unendurable..."

Gen Nakaoka: The whole country should be grateful to the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Their sacrifice made it possible for everyone else to survive and sleep peacefully at night. In fact, the whole world should be grateful to them, because Hiroshima and Nagasaki showed everyone just how unspeakable nuclear weapons are. They've helped keep the rest of the world from being destroyed in a nuclear war.

Kazuya Ryuzaki: He can't fight. He's not our enemy anymore.

Koji Nakaoka: Why can't everyone think? Use their heads for once? Are they going to be duped by this hoax of a war forever?!

Anna Kyoyama: For people, living means battling. However trivial, the more people long for happiness, the greater the unhappiness they find.

Katsuo Aihara: Do you think anything has changed in the history of war since ancient Roman times? People have always tried to force their beliefs on others, so they take turns invading and being invaded. People don't change for the better. The only things that have changed are science and technology, so the only progress you see is in weaponry.

Daikichi Nakaoka: You really think this war is being fought for all Japanese people? A handful of rich men started this war! They didn't consult us!

Jin: Be careful, Xiaoyu. Williams is a killer.
Xiaoyu: She doesn't look too dangerous.
Jin: She's literally a hired killer. That's what she does for a living.
Xiaoyu: It's gonna be so disappointing for her when she's defeated by a high school kid, huh?

Yamaoka: The world is full of young people who'll be killed in the war. If they all lived another 30 years, who knows what they could accomplish?

Japan: They say Italian tanks can advance sixty kilometers a week on the battlefield, but after spotting English troops, they can retreat sixty kilometers in a single day.

Rider (Alexander the Great): It appears this man, Clinton, will be a formidable opponent. Likely to put up a better fight than Darius III.

Leopold Vermillion: If you aren't prepared to get hurt, stay off the battlefield!

Kei Nagai: Somewhere in the world, there are always people dying: from war, poverty or other absurd reasons. Why aren't you trying to save them?

Naruto Uzumaki: We sacrificed a lot in our battle against the Otsutsuki. But we also made new friends.

Yui: You're stretching yourself too thin. If you don't rest while you can, you'll collapse before the real battle.
Gabimaru: The real battle? Is there some kind of major job coming up?
Yui: No. I'm talking about life.

Jessica Edwards: Secretary of Defence! Where were you?! Where were you, you who glorify the war dead? Where was your family? I offered my fiancé as a sacrifice. So where was your family, you who preach the necessity of citizens' sacrifice? Are you practising what you preach?!

Redjic: I've told you not to order me around. I fight for myself.

Harlock: I fight for no one. I just fight for something within my heart.

Lyserg Diethel: Winning a battle doesn't mean defeating your opponent. It means being able to have a smile on your face afterward.

Kagaya Ubuyashiki: No matter how many lives the demons take, the one thing they can never crush is a human's will. No matter how battered we are, we will always rise up again to fight.