Bill McKibben Quotes

Here, there's more of a movement, it doesn't mean we're winning any more, but we're at least fighting.

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

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

I want peace and am willing to fight for it.

The oppressed have no alternative—for they have no power—but to fight.

I don't mind fighting as long as it's for a good cause.

This country is in a crisis. And if you're fighting to save this country, if you're fighting to take this country back, it's not going to be sunshine and patriots. It's going to be people who want to fight. I mean, Andrew Breitbart was all about the fight.

I have come to fight for peace, and I will not give my hand to those who try to turn the word 'peace' into a dirty one.

Think about all of the times, situations, and circumstances where you have gotten caught up in making your self right rather than happy... The harder you fight to win, the bigger you lose.

The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight.

Every generation must re-win its own freedoms.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After all, even when you succeed in obtaining a measure of justice, you're always forced to mobilize to defend that which you've won. There is no looming vacation. But there is redemption in struggle.

You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!

You need a little resistance-something to fight against.

What you gotta understand is, in this conversation and in our fight, you're not in control.

No one gets to their heaven without a fight...

There are some battles, no matter how much you don’t want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for.

Let us fight to free the world!

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

Although our fight will be long and hard, our people are resolved to fight till final victory.

Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.

I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians.

So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds.

I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.