Quotes About Struggle

With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.

I'm crafting a vision of my life that involves creativity. And Cuban society allows me to do this. I know it's harder in the U.S. where so many people are just grateful to have a job.

While we still live in a capitalist society, we of course will fight for whatever reforms help make life better for working people.

We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society.

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.

In an oppressive society if a group stands up to take care of the lambs, it automatically stands up against the wolves.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real.

Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.

This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.

John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.

In America, we have struggled too much, too long as a country trying to overcome racism and sexism and homophobia. We cannot go back to a more discriminatory society.

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.