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Quotes About Struggle

When you can't escape your mind then God is telling your heart to catch up. Fight for the balance you need.
~ Shannon L. Alder
I have lost my smile inside the dim nature of people.
~ Tanmaya Guru
The money is the only source of smile for the poor.
~ Tanmaya Guru
Every day is a challenge, a challenge of happinesswhether you can still wear a smile at the end of a depressing day or you will totally miss it.
~ Bradley B. Dalina
A smile doesn't always stand for a perfect life.
~ Faraaz Kazi
What has life given me? The beginning is fire, the end is a heap of ashes, and between the end and the beginning lies all the pain in the world.
~ Francis Marion Crawford
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
~ Aristotle
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
~ Thomas Hobbes
If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.
~ Muhammad Yunus
You want society to accept you; but you can't even accept yourself.
~ Michael Fassbender
I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.
~ Ralph Abernathy
To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.
~ Vine Deloria Jr.
Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.
~ Frances Fox Piven
You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.
~ Nathalia Crane
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
~ Thomas Fuller
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
~ Carter Burwell
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
~ Pope Paul VI
In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.
~ James Purdy
Democracy cannot be forced upon a society, neither is it a gift that can be held forever. It has to be struggled hard for and defended everyday anew.
~ Heinz Galinski
There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.
~ Thiruvalluvar