Karl A. Menninger Quotes

It is better to die fighting than to live begging.

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

A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.

As long as you are still fighting in defense of your dignity and for your occupied land, all is well.

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

If we fail to see that there are powers that cause people to be bowed down in bondage, we are going to fight the wrong battle.

Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

Winning is important, but survival is even more important. If you don't survive, you don't get to fight the next battle.

Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.

We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era of repose. If we would save our lives, we must fight for them.

Sometimes you have to fight in order to be free.

We must fight for what we want or it will be taken from us.

The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting, fighting all the way, trying to swim back up the stream, longing for the shores that they have passed, clutching at anything to retard their progress, frightened by the onward rush of the strong current and in danger of being overwhelmed by the waters. Others go with the current freely, trusting themselves to the buoyancy of the water.

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

I come from a sense of struggle, a sense of using the instruments that were given to me to manipulate the environment in which I found myself, and joined up with those who are equally as skillful at manipulating that environment, as was I.

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.

A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.

Let us fight to free the world!

The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them. The ones I hated have taken to the water, horrible scaled things that tear my salty flesh with needle teeth. Biting again and again. Dragging me beneath the surface.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

When she was rested. she'd find a way to escape. It was the duty of the captive, wasn't it?