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Quotes About Struggle

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
~ Mark Twain
I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.
~ Pete Hamill
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.
~ Isabel Allende
In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame
~ Nikki Giovanni
With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.
~ Immanuel Kant
Songwriting is the way of perpetual want. Songwriters are the blessed/cursed people. You will never have a moment's peace in your life. You will always be wanting the next song.
~ Jon Stewart
It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency.
~ George W. Bush
Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
~ Salman Rushdie
Life is stressful,dear. That's why they say "rest in peace.
~ David Mazzucchelli
Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.
~ John Calvin
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
~ Sitting Bull
There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.
~ Joyce Kilmer
Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
~ Tacitus
The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.
~ Anne O'Hare McCormick
Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.
~ John Milton
Most of the artists I know are crazy in one way or another. I think that's why you get into it. You're in pursuit of a certain sort of peace that's very, very, very difficult to come by.
~ Bruce Springsteen
And you take care, too, Shahara. Remember the lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls. (Nero)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.
~ Sylvester Stallone
To surrender is not giving up the struggle, but finding peace within the struggle.
~ Michelle Cruz-Rosado
I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
~ Walid Jumblatt