Quotes About Struggle

Gwenhwyfar looked at her husband and quivered like a leashed hound with the scent.

I ached for them. Most of them would not be able to cling to their bubble world; one day someone, something would thrust it. I wished it could be different.

The shadows around her loomed longer and darker. She didn't know what her light was.

Port Central had become a sophisticated prison for its inmates, while the natives roamed a whole world.

It was like the village all over again; she had won, but still must leave. She could not bear it.

From sympathizers viewing Sacco and Vanzetti as victims, it was only a short step to viewing them as martyrs. To their partisans they exemplified all that was admirable—innocence, virtue, and idealism—while the forces arrayed against them embodied all that was intrinsically evil: bigotry, hypocrisy, and reaction.

Modern man's misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.

Man forges his own history, imposing on nature the errors of his free will. If hatred and greed drag man down among bloody mazes, the struggle is joined between perverted freedoms and just freedoms.

El suicidio más acostumbrado en nuestro tiempo consiste en pegarse un balazo en el alma.

In order to escape from this prison, one must learn not to come to an arrangement with its indisputable comforts.

A reactionary is anyone who is not prepared to buy his victory at any price.

Perception of reality, today, dies crushed between modern work and modern entertainment.

Modern man's misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live a life that is not mediocre.

Nobody finds himself by searching merely for himself. Personality is born out of conflict with a norm.

Humanity is not cured of its diseases except by means of catastrophes that decimate it. Man has never known how to renounce at the right time.

In order to avoid a manly confrontation with nothingness, man erects altars to progress.

El suicidio más acostumbrado en nuestro tiempo es pegarse un balazo en el alma.

Between the dictatorship of technology and the technology of dictatorship, man no longer finds a crack through which he can slip away.

The defeated reactionary always retains the option of entertaining himself with the victor's simplistic ideas.

The incorrigible political error of the man of good will is to presuppose naively that at every moment it is possible to do what must be done. Here, where what is necessary is often impossible.

Natural inequalities would make the democrat's life bitter, if slander did not exist.

Resistance is futile when everything in the world is conspiring to destroy what we admire. We are always left, however, with an incorruptible soul, so that we might contemplate, judge, and disdain.

The democratic historian teaches that the democrat kills only because his victims force him to do so.

History exhibits two types of anarchy: that which emanates from a plurality of forces and that which derives from a plurality of weaknesses.