Quotes About Struggle

When people grow up in atmospheres of violence or atmospheres of poverty, they don't normally use hi-falutin' language to describe those things. They would describe some brutal event the same way we would describe getting a taxi or missing the bus.

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.

My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.

Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.

I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life.

I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself.

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.

My dad was a womaniser, a gambler. He was violent. They thought if they left Scotland, they would leave the problems behind.

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.