Quotes About Struggle

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

I was raised in this society so you can't expect me to be a perferct person cause Ima do what Ima do.

Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.

If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!

Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.

Unless you already have a name well known in at least one stratum of society, I don't think trying to do things yourself will be easy - if at all possible.

The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society.

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made for herself. They never even knew what she did die of. Some spoke of a chill. But the truth was that she died from poverty, from the filth and the weariness of her wretched life.

All that was really there was still more misery -- oh yes! as much of that as you like.

De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see. Ah been prayin' fuh it tuh be different wid you.