The Cold War isn’t thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn’t sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

I’m happy about working; I’m happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It’s the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

I’m going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I’m going to change the game. I’m going to change the way people approach fighting.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

Today on the NATO line, our military forces face east to prevent a possible invasion. On the other side of the line, the Soviet forces also face east to prevent their people from leaving.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

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

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can’t talk. The man can’t fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he’s gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!