# Quote — Imre Kertész, Detective Story

> If a person resolves to fight, he ought to know what he is fighting for. Otherwise it makes no sense. A person usually fights against a power in order to gain power himself. Or else because the power in question is threatening his life.

- Author: [Imre Kertész](https://www.leafyquotes.com/imre-kertesz.md)
- Book: [Detective Story](https://www.leafyquotes.com/imre-kertesz/detective-story.md)
- Page: 69
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Imre_Kert%C3%A9sz#Detective_Story_(2008)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/imre-kertesz/detective-story/if-a-person

## More from this book

> Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.

p. 35 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/imre-kertesz/detective-story/of-course-living.md)

> Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.

p. 30 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/imre-kertesz/detective-story/nonexistence-the-society.md)

> I took a stroll in the city. It was infernally hot. The usual evening hubbub around me. Lovers on the pavements, hurrying to cinemas and other places of amusement as if nothing had happened, nothing. Living their nonexistent lives. Or do they exit, and it’s me who doesn’t.

p. 31 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/imre-kertesz/detective-story/i-took-a-stroll.md)