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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.

— Ignatius of Antioch

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

— Plato

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

— Ty Cobb

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.

— Arrian

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

— Donella Meadows

As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.

— Daniel Morgan

We all have enemies, but my enemies would probably describe me as surprisingly ruthless.

— Ron Funches

We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.

— Zhang Zhidong

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

— John Milton

I've been to war, and I know the consequences and sacrifice it takes. If we must fight, we fight to win.

— Ryan Zinke

✗Opposing Perspectives

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

— John Burroughs