Quotes About Struggle

Glory: I look around at this world you're so eager to be a part of and all I see is six billion lunatics looking for the fastest ride out. Who's not crazy? Look around, everyone's drinking, smoking, shooting up, shooting each other, or just plain screwing their brains out 'cause they don't want 'em anymore. I'm crazy? Honey, I'm the original one-eyed chicklet in the kingdom of the blind, 'cause at least I admit the world makes me nuts.

We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.

There is a place you can go that is below down and beyond bad. When you get there, every minute that passes goes by like an hour. Every hour that passes feels like an achievement without a goal. And everything around you makes you hurt.

Honestly, I am less concerned about gangs with guns than the woman at the end of the driveway holding a baby and asking for food." He paused, and sighed, "I don't want to be in that moral dilemma.

Until one corporation is left standing, and the impoverished revolt.

many of us use what spare time and money we have earned undoing the impact of our jobs or companies. And that gets harder every day.

Tupper, I think in The Victor. Alf was a working class, whippet-thin runner known as the Tough of the Track who won all his races despite having been up all night making briquettes to save a friend's business, missing his bus to the stadium, being knocked over mid-race by a poncy upper-class twit and losing one of his raggedy running shoes.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Chesterton knew that loving and fighting go together. Loving something while being unwilling to fight for it would be better categorized as lust. And at the same time, a man who sees the world in wisdom knows that loving the world means that he must be willing to fight the world. Loving the world means fighting for the world, and loving the world also means fighting the world.

You were born of a woman, and so you come from a race of dragon-slayers. This does not mean you will succeed. It just means the thing is possible.

he hardly knew any facts and was thus having trouble sticking to them.

Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.

The long war against God has always been a conflict that boils down to the same thing. Can we somehow have access to the fruit of the tree of life without actually coming to the tree of life?

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

she knew again that her humour had saved her only for larger destructions; that the mad and the murdered, the living, must learn to hold their chemical breath.

Our is a battle; not for wealth, nor for power. Ours is battle; for freedom; for reclamation of human personality.

Injustice and peace are strange bedfellows

Not all were asleep during the night of our forefathers! (Noli Me Tangere)

People don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

The Filipino loves his country no less than the Spaniard does his, and although he is quieter, more peaceful and with more difficulty stirred up, once aroused he does not hesitate and for him the struggle means death to the finish. He has both the meekness and ferocity of the carabao. Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

The school of suffering tempers the spirit, the arena of combat strengthens the soul. (El Filibusterismo)

To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.

You must shatter the vase to spread its perfume, and smite the rock to get the spark!" (El Filibusterismo)