Quotes About Struggle

The development of good character is a battle that you, I, and everyone must fight for himself. But victory can be ours.

discerning men have described Communism as reversing and negating history. It has turned man against himself. Instead of solving the many complex problems of modern life, Marxism's negative approach has simply resurrected primitive problems which past generations of struggling humanity had already succeeding in solving.

Marx and Engels thought all of these things could be traced to one root -- private property. If they used a final revolutionary class uprising to overthrow private property, it would mean that class struggle would become unnecessary because there would be nothing to fight over!

Marx and Engels accepted the fact that the remaking of the world will have to be a cruel and ruthless task and that it will involve the destruction of all who stand in the way.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others…. One feels his twoness—an American, a Negro; two Souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

In life the loser's score is always zero.

Art is born of humiliation.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

Fate succombs many a species. One alone jeopardizes itself.

The mass and majesty of this world, all That carries weight and always weighs the same Lay in the hands of others; they were small And could not hope for help and no help came: What their foes like to do was done, their shame Was all the worst could wish; they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died.

The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke.

We'll sing and dance and suffer and die, but we'll make lives here. Which is what existence is all about, isn't it?

Todo el mundo piensa que no encaja del todo. Es parte de la maldición de ser humano.

In many ways the Reformation was born out of the sense of the hopelessness and spiritual powerlessness of sinners.

The monster in American history is not simply that which destroys. It is a being that must be destroyed. ...There can be no simple border wars in America's conflicts. Every battle is a mythic battle, a struggle against savagery, whether it be a Native American war, the search for a sea monster, or a war on terror.

She always paid a high price for her dignity.

The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

It's difficult to have fun or to achieve concentration when your ego is engaged in what it thinks is a life-and-death struggle.

All of your scars are on the inside, are they not?" he asked. I nodded. "Not so severe as yours, I feel." "Why? Because they may not have involved as much bodily pain?

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed ...