Quotes About Struggle

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

As our faces and bodies drew nearer, gravity was not helping us at all. It took minor struggle to come together, and we had to hold on in an effort to keep our lips aligned.

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

The agnosticism I had upheld throughout my conscious life had not made me a Christian. But in the camps I had not seen better people than the believers. Depravity affected everyone's souls; only the believers held out.

It was difficult for me to write, and not just because my hands were rough and my fingers so permanently bent around the handle of a pick and axe that unbending them was unbelievably difficult. I managed to wrap a thick rag around pen and pencil to give them the thickness of a pick or shovel handle.

Essere un rivoluzionario significa prima di tutto essere una persona onestà. Di per sé una cosa semplice, eppure così difficile.

La vita è una cella un po' fuori dell'ordinario, più uno è povero più si restringono i metri quadrati a sua disposizione.

a chiacchiera è il companatico della miseria!

Alexandra Fedorovna pronounced Russian words with a heavy accent, and it was noticebale that speaking Russian was hard for her ...[she] pronounced each phrase with difficulty, and with a German accent — just like a foreigner who had learned the Russian language from books, and not from practice.

In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil. We must never become indifferent to others or undemanding of ourselves.

In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.

The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the opposite of necessity. Freedom is necessity overcome. Progress is, in essence, the progress of human freedom. Yes, and after all, life itself is freedom. The evolution of life is the evolution of freedom.

neither fate, nor history, nor the anger of the State, nor the glory or infamy of battle has any power to affect those who call themselves human beings. No, whatever life holds in store --- hard-won glory, poverty and despair, or death in a labor camp --- they will live as human beings and die as human beings, the same as those who have already perished; and in this alone lies man's eternal and bitter victory over all the grandiose and inhuman forces that ever have been or will be...

i have wiped your face off my face ripped your shadow off my shadow levelled the hills in you turned your plains into hills set your seasons at odds within you turned all the ends of the world from you wrapped the path of my life around you my impenetrable my impossible path now you just try to find me

Race Some bite from the others A leg an arm or whatever Take it between their teeth Run out as fast as they can Cover it up with earth The others scatter everywhere Sniff look sniff look Dig up the whole earth If they are lucky and find an arm Or leg or whatever It's their turn to bite The game continues at a lively pace As long as there are arms As long as there are legs As long as there is anything

a white formless bundle moves over the clear heaven constantly with all its strength it rocks side to side tied crosswise with green string and so prepares its step constantly struggling it falls on to uncaring soil of heaven and so marks time above it one star keeps silence below it another star silence to its right an old sun philosopjizes to its left a young moon prattles why doesnt it jut calm down for once the good natured thunder from the clear heaven will certainly unite it

Now I will dance you the war…. The war which you did not prevent.

I stayed with my wife's mother during the war. I understood the war because I fought with my wife's mother.

Ndokujt, s'asht m'u çudit, ia ka marrë mend djalli e ndokush s'po mujt me durue që s'asht i përkryem.

War is less burdensome than servitude.

Entre rois, entre peuples, entre particuliers, le plus fort se done des droits sur le plus faible, et la même règle est suivie par les animaux, par la matière, par les èlèments, etc., de sorte que tout s'exècute dans l'univers par la violence; et cet ordre, que nous blâmons avec quelque apparance de justice, est la loi la plus gènèrale, la plus absolue, la plus immuable, et la plus ancienne de la nature.

Lentäminen on niin vaikeaa, ettei kukaan lentäisi, ellei se olisi niin vaikeaa.

In all liberation struggles it is the common people who bathe in the fire of oppression.