Quotes About Struggle

En el siglo XXI, el poder es más fácil de adquirir, más difícil de utilizar y más fácil de perder. Desde las salas de juntas y las zonas de combate hasta el ciberespacio, las luchas de poder son tan intensas como lo han sido siempre, pero cada vez dan menos resultados.

To put it simply, power no longer buys as much as it did in the past. In the twenty-first century, power is easier to get, harder to use—and easier to lose. From boardrooms and combat zones to cyberspace, battles for power are as intense as ever, but they are yielding diminishing returns.

Ser opositor no puede ser gratis», le dice uno de sus asesores cubanos,

Lo que quiero decir no es que la coacción ya no sea posible —basta recordar las masacres en Siria—, sino que se ha vuelto más cara y más difícil de sostener a largo plazo.

Money has always been one motivation to take up arms

Nadie sobresale. La oposición sigue perdida.

during transitions to democracy, nations often undergo political convulsions that make them hard to govern, thus feeding nostalgia for their old authoritarian order.

los cambios que han hecho que el poder sea más fácil de obtener, más complicado de usar y más difícil de conservar.

the decay of power has significantly altered the terms of global conflict.

is how each of them is making power easier to get and harder to use or keep.

Deceived on all sides, overwhelmed with injustice, I will fly from an abyss where vice is triumphant, and seek out some small secluded nook on earth, where on may enjoy the freedom of being an honest man.

Trahi de toutes parts, accablé d'injustices, Je vais sortir d'un gouffre où triomphent les vices ; Et chercher sur la terre un endroit écarté Où d'être homme d'honneur, on ait la liberté.

All human failings give us, in life, the means of exercising our philosophy

I always do the first line well, but I have trouble with the others.

There are things in life which one cannot well defend, although one may have the greatest wish to do so.

debts now-a-days are like children, begot with pleasure, but brought forth with pain.

WHAT, WILL THE star which is bent on driving me to despair allow me no time to breathe? Am I to see, through their mutual understanding, my watchful care and my wisdom defeated one after another? Must I, in my mature age, become the dupe of a simple girl and a scatter-brained young fellow?

Se retrouver abandonné est un coup porté à votre orgueil. Faites de votre mieux pour l'oublier et si vous ne réussissez pas, faites au moins semblant.

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

Women couldn't identify with her and didn't support her.

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.

The Anglo-Irish occupied a strange position in 1920s Ireland, the time in which the book is set. A breed apart, poverty-stricken yet proud, they were struggling to keep their niche in a changing country.

I wanted to fuck her and protect her all at the same time. I wanted to keep her and push her away. I was everything in opposites, and I felt torn apart by her.