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Quotes About Struggle

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
~ Albert Camus
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
~ E. T. A. Hoffmann
Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.
~ Kohta Hirano
We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.
~ Abdoulaye Wade
So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.
~ Sigmund Freud
Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.
~ William Blake
Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.
~ John Kennedy Toole
We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.
~ Che Guevara
Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before.
~ Paul Harvey
You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.
~ Joseph Campbell
Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
~ Dario Argento
If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means
~ Walter Rodney
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
~ Charles de Gaulle
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made
~ Isaiah Berlin
We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.
~ Marc Lamont Hill
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.
~ William Osler
To be human means to feel inferior.
~ Alfred Adler
Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.
~ Lech Walesa
Cinema is the greatest mirror of humanity's struggle. You see this alternative world, but you're part of it. Everybody is part of it. This is our world.
~ Lav Diaz
Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
~ Adolf Hitler
I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
There is no border. I'm branding my films as Malay cinema, but it's just about cinema. Everything that I make is about humanity's struggle, so there is no border, really.
~ Lav Diaz
There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested.
~ Nelson Mandela