Quotes About Struggle

Destiny has got the rope round my neck – and I feel it.

Here is one more book that depicts the struggle of a human creature, under those opposing influences of Good and Evil, which we have all felt, which we have all known.

Don't doubt my courage, Walter, it's my weakness that cries, not me.

When we are isolated and poor, we are not infrequently forgotten.

Here is one more book that depicts the struggle of a human creature, under those opposing influences of Good and Evil

Bu darbenin etkisinden kurtulabilmek ve kaderimi kabullenebilmek, kederimi yavaÅŸ yavaÅŸ yaÅŸamak, umutsuzluÄŸa kap?lmamak için elimden gelen her ÅŸeyi yapm??t?m. Yarar? olmuyor, ne kadar aÄŸlasam da yanan gözlerimdeki yaÅŸlar dinmiyordu—

the harder the struggle for existence among the men and women about us, the less the risk of their having the time or taking the pains to notice chance strangers who came among them.

Look where we may, the dark threads and the light cross each other perpetually in the texture of human life.

Sen yan?mda olmad???ndan ölmek karar?m, daha doÄŸrusu yaÅŸamaya kar?? duyduÄŸum nefret deÄŸiÅŸmeden, bütün gücüyle sürüp gidiyor.

Ha, Mr. Betteredge, the day is not far off when the poor will rise against the rich. I pray Heaven they may begin with him. I pray Heaven they may begin with him.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record; while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks of the river.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

When the universe has crushed him man will still be nobler than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and of its victory the universe knows nothing.

There is no greater drama in human record than the sight of a few Christians, scorned or oppressed by a succession of emperors, bearing all trials with a fierce tenacity, multiplying quietly, building order while their enemies generated chaos, fighting the sword with the word, brutality with hope, and at last defeating the strongest state that history has known. Caesar and Christ had met in the arena, and Christ had won.

Peace is war by other means.

History in the large is the conflict of minorities; the majority applauds the victor and supplies the human material of social experiment.

The second biological lesson of history is that life is selection. In the competition for food or mates or power some organisms succeed and some fail. In the struggle for existence some individuals are better equipped than others to meet the tests of survival.

Man's sins may be the relics of his rise rather than the stigmata of his fall.

Pascal: "When the universe has crushed him man will still be nobler than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and of its victory the universe knows nothing.

coarse necessities of physical existence drag him from the heights of thought into the mart of economic strife and gain.

Perhaps our supercilious disgust with existence is a cover for a secret disgust with ourselves: we have botched and bungled our lives, and we cast the blame upon the environment, or the world, which have no tongues to utter a defense.

By 1911 I found it impossible to continue my pretenses to orthodoxy;

For barbarism is always around civilization, amid it and beneath it, ready to engulf it by arms, or mass migration, or unchecked fertility. Barbarism is like the jungle; it never admits its defeat; it waits patiently for centuries to recover the territory it has lost.

a pathological concentration of wealth, leading to class wars, disruptive revolutions, and financial exhaustion: these are some of the ways in which a civilization may die.