Pope Francis Quotes

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.

Fighting evil, it's hard work.

We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom...that is very hard indeed.

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

The Arab world is not in a compromising mood. It's likely that your plan is rational and logical, but the fate of nations is not decided by rational logic. Nations never concede; they fight. You won't get anything by peaceful means or compromise. You can, perhaps, get something, but only by the force of your arms. We shall try to defeat you. I am not sure we'll succeed, but we'll try. We were able to drive out the Crusaders, but on the other hand we lost Spain and Persia. It may be that we shall lose Palestine. But it's too late to talk of peaceful solutions.

If there is no struggle there is no progress…. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle.

It's hard to fight the war when you've got to debate the worthiness of fighting it.

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

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

There is a time for all things—a time to preach, and a time to fight, and now is the time to fight.

The struggle between good and evil never ends no matter how great the victory. Anti-Spain was routed, but it is not dead.