Quotes About Struggle

Liberation by destruction was on the way! We would free them even if we had to kill them all to do it!

The Welfare ration cards took care of everything, everything that kept you alive and just alive enough to hate it.

NEW YORK CITY— —stolen from the trusting Indians by the wily Dutch, taken from the law-abiding Dutch by the warlike British, then wrested in turn from the peaceful British by the revolutionary colonials.

Throughout this whole struggle, we Black students at the school had been ardent supporters of the position of Stalin and the Central Committee. Most certainly we were Stalinists – whose policies we saw as the continuation of Lenin's. Those today who use the term "Stalinist" as an epithet evade the real question: that is, were Stalin and the Central Committee correct? I believe history has proven that they were correct.

New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.

I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me.

Stresul implicat in lupta ia totdeauna sfirsit cind te predai.

Harry M. Caudill

It is unthinkable that a rich and enlightened society should permit its unfortunate members to starve in the midst of plenty; but once the justifications are admitted the difficulties still stand undiminished.

I struggle each day not to let the fear of the censor poison my writing. Where the censor rules, a dull sameness creeps into books.

He understood very well that it was just because of this intimacy that their marriage had not survived.

Schrijven is stratenmaken: op je knieën liggen en achteruit kruipen.

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

Politics sure is the ruination of many a good man.

Everybody wants something at the expense of everybody else and nobody thinks much of the other fellow.

You can't have anything worthwhile without difficulties.

There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the fact of the matter is that by ourselves we can only be consumed by our problems and suffer the shipwreck".

All the lights couldn't put out the dark Runnin' through my heart

I'm hitting the woods just great, but I'm having a terrible time getting out of them.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Within the first few months I discovered that being President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or be swallowed.