No Holds Barred Quotes

“Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Quest

“He still had not realized there was no coming back from this mess. He was hopeful they would persevere, no matter how long it took. In the meantime, there was no time to think inside the lines anymore. They had to break some rules, if they were going to survive the night. It was all out war on the infected. No holds barred.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“Democracies do have written rules (constitutions) and referees (the courts). But these work best, and survive longest, in countries where written constitutions are reinforced by their own unwritten rules of the game. These rules or norms serve as the soft guardrails of democracy, preventing day-to-day political competition from devolving into a no-holds-barred conflict.”
― Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future