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Quotes About Challenge

Universal peace is a beautiful dream, but not at once realizable.
~ Nikola Tesla
Man cannot sprout wings unless he has first reached the brink of the abyss!
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
The longer I live, the more I rebel. I'm not going to give in; I want to conquer the world!
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Gradually I began to understand that it does not matter very much what problem, whether big or small, is tormenting us; the only thing that matters it that we be tormented, that we find a ground for being tormented. In other words, that we exercise our minds in order to keep certainty from turning us into idiots, that we fight to open every closed door we find in front of us.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
If they were to ask me what road leads to heaven, I would answer them: the most difficult!
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Our body is a ship that sails on deep blue waters. What is our goal? To be shipwrecked!
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Life is trouble. Death – no. To live – do you know what that means? To undo your belt and look for trouble!
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Dur?, aspr? mai e, se pare, clima pe p?mântul ?sta, iar seminÈ›ele cele mai de preÈ› nu încolÈ›esc sau sunt în?buÈ™ite de salvie È™i urzici.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Când toate merg anapoda, ce bucurie s? ne punem sufletul la încercare dac? are rezisten?? È™i valoreaz? ceva!
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Each man acquires the stature of the enemy with whom he wrestles.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
odies al jugador; odia el juego.
~ Niobia Bryant
What today we mistake for a padlock, keeping us out, we may tomorrow find to be the key that lets us in.
~ Nizami Ganjavi
U onome što danas izgleda kao brava, koja te odvaja od tvoga cilja, sutra možeš prepoznati klju?.
~ Nizami Ganjavi
The fears we cannot climb become our walls.
~ Noah BenShea
The difficulty in life is the choice.
~ Noah Gordon
The difficulty in life is the choice. —George Moore The Bending of the Bough
~ Noah Gordon
Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.
~ Noam Chomsky
My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school.
~ Noam Chomsky
So I think it's completely realistic and rational to work within structures to which you are opposed, because by doing so you can help to move to a situation where then you can challenge those structures.
~ Noam Chomsky
Come at me bro!
~ Noam Chomsky
Look, if you have a political movement that's strong enough that the power structure has to accommodate it, it'll get accommodated in some fashion-as in the case of union organizing rights here, the Wagner Act. But when that movement stops being active and challenging, those rights just aren't going to matter very much anymore.
~ Noam Chomsky
I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.
~ Noam Chomsky
So I think that it's completely realistic and rational to work within structures to which you are opposed, because by doing so you can help to move to a situation where then you can challenge those structures.
~ Noam Chomsky
This broad tendency in human development seeks to identify structures of hierarchy, authority and domination that constrain human development, and then subject them to a very reasonable challenge: Justify yourself. If these structures can't meet that challenge, they should be dismantled—and, anarchists believe, "refashioned from below," as commentator Nathan Schneider observes. In
~ Noam Chomsky