„We stand with Israel because your cause is our cause, your values are our values, and your fight is our fight.“

„Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.“

—  Ayn Rand Russian-American novelist and philosopher 1905 - 1982

„Is that your reason for fighting?! We're different!!! We fight for the sake of our injured friends!!! No matter if our opponents are humans, demons, or even gods!!!“

—  Hiro Mashima Japanese manga artist 1977

„A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.“

—  Freeman Dyson theoretical physicist and mathematician 1923

Disturbing the Universe (1979)
Contesto: A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad. <!-- Pt. 1, Ch. 4

„Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.“

—  Francine Rivers, libro A Voice in the Wind

Origine: A Voice in the Wind

„Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side
In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?“

—  Thomas Moore, Come

Come, send round the Wine.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

„When it is a question of fighting against imperialism we can state with conviction that we are all Stalinists. We can take pride that we have taken part in the fight for the advance of our great cause against our enemies. From that point of view I am proud that we are Stalinists.“

—  Nikita Khrushchev First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1894 - 1971

Remark made at Kremlin New Year's Eve reception, December 31, 1956. Quoted in Khrushchev by Edward Crankshaw. ISBN 9781448205059

„As a people, we are fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; a white flag would thus be emblematical of our cause.“

—  William Tappan Thompson American humorist 1812 - 1882

Savannah Morning News (23 April 1863), As quoted in Our Flag: Origin and Progress of the Flag of the United States of America (1872), by George Henry Preble, Albany: Joel Munsell, pp. 416&ndash;417

„What our enemies have sought to destroy is beyond their reach. It cannot be taken from us. It can only be surrendered.
My friends, we are again met on the field of political competition with our fellow countrymen. It is more than appropriate, it is necessary that even in times of crisis we have these contests, and engage in spirited disagreement over the shape and course of our government.
We have nothing to fear from each other. We are arguing over the means to better secure our freedom, and promote the general welfare. But it should remain an argument among friends who share an unshaken belief in our great cause, and in the goodness of each other.
We are Americans first, Americans last, Americans always. Let us argue our differences. But remember we are not enemies, but comrades in a war against a real enemy, and take courage from the knowledge that our military superiority is matched only by the superiority of our ideals, and our unconquerable love for them.
Our adversaries are weaker than us in arms and men, but weaker still in causes. They fight to express a hatred for all that is good in humanity.
We fight for love of freedom and justice, a love that is invincible. Keep that faith. Keep your courage. Stick together. Stay strong.
Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight.
We're Americans.
We're Americans, and we'll never surrender.
They will.“

—  John McCain politician from the United States 1936 - 2018

2000s, 2004, Speech at the Republican National Convention (2004)

„All you've ever asked of your government is to stand on your side and not in your way. And that's what I intend to do: stand on your side and fight for your future.“

—  John McCain politician from the United States 1936 - 2018

2000s, 2008, (2008)

„Don't give up the fight,
Stand up for your rights.“

—  Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981

„Are you making war upon us, because you anticipate that we will not endure such indignity, but that we will fight on behalf of our laws, and die in defence of our national customs? For you cannot possibly have been ignorant of what was likely to result from your attempt to introduce these innovations respecting our temple.“

—  Philo Roman philosopher -15 - 45 a.C.

Embassy to Gaius, Chapter 28-31, Yonge's translation.

„We are a solid and united nation, which would rather go down to ruin than admit the domination of the Nazis…If the enemy does try to invade this country, we will fight him in the air and on the sea; we will fight him on the beaches with every weapon we have…We shall be fighting…with the conviction that our cause is the cause of humanity and peace against cruelty and wars; a cause that surely has the blessing of Almighty God.“

—  Neville Chamberlain Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1869 - 1940

Broadcast (30 June 1940), quoted in Keith Feiling, Neville Chamberlain (London: Macmillan, 1946), p. 449.
Post-Prime Ministerial

„We must decide what we value and decide what is worth fighting for and then–the most important part–we must fight for it.“

—  Garry Kasparov former chess world champion 1963

Origine: 2010s, Winter is Coming (2015), p. 62

„Some things are worth fighting for. I encourage my readers to avoid trouble, most importantly via relocation to safe areas where trouble is unlikely to visit. But there may come an unavoidable day when you have to make a stand to defend your own family or your neighbors. Furthermore, if you value your liberty, then be prepared to fight for it, both for yourself and for the sake of your progeny.“

—  James Wesley Rawles Survivalist-fiction author and blogger 1960

Origine: How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, Plume, New York (2009), p. 18

„Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.“

—  John McCain politician from the United States 1936 - 2018

Origine: Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir

„Lost causes are the only causes worth fighting for.“

—  Ethel Lina White, libro The Wheel Spins

The Wheel Spins (1932), p 270.
A variation of this quote also appears in the film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

„Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!“

—  Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981

Get Up, Stand Up, Burnin (1973), cowritten with Peter Tosh.
Song lyrics
Origine: Bob Marley - Legend

„If we want to transform reality, we begin with ourselves. We do not ask the world to change, and we do not fight against society. It has to be us ourselves who affirm our own values.“

—  Alejandro Jodorowsky Filmmaker and comics writer 1929

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

„No, we fight because we are free men who don't sleep under oppression. We want to restore freedom to our nation, just as you lay waste to our nation. So shall we lay waste to yours.“

—  Osama bin Laden founder of al-Qaeda 1957 - 2011

2000s, 2004, 2004 Video Broadcast on Al-Jazeera October 29