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Quotes About Struggle

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
~ Harlan Coben
To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
All oppression creates a state of war.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
~ Andrew Jackson
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
~ C. S. Lewis
For Germany, the war was like an end game in chess in which she possessed one castle less than her adversary. The loss of the war was as certain as the loss of an end game under these conditions.
~ Werner Heisenberg
The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.
~ Kim Il-sung
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
~ Winston Churchill
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
~ Amelia Earhart
I'm not afraid to say I'm at war with the pigs.
~ Fred Hampton
Kashmiri people are fighting the war for freedom. And India cannot stop this freedom movement through atrocities, as Kashmir dispute is a problem of humanity, human rights, and freedom.
~ Shehbaz Sharif
Surviving is the only glory in war.
~ Samuel Fuller
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
~ George Orwell
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
~ Mao Zedong
I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.
~ Bernard Hill
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
~ Adrienne Rich
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
~ Van Wyck Brooks
After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.
~ Anne Frank
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
~ George Bernard Shaw
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
~ Georges Clemenceau
Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.
~ Douglas Haig
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf