Quotes About Struggle

She obviously had disappointing news in her teens and wasn't yet recovered.

Dennis Wheatley

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.

But desperate people find courage.

War was grueling and oppressive and frustrating and uncomfortable, but one had friends. If peace brought back loneliness, Godliman thought he would not be able to live with it.

They're Americans when they win races, and when they get conscripted into the army,' Dave said. 'But they're Negroes when they want to buy the house next door to yours.

Don't worry. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged." She

He was the kind of man George had been fighting for a decade: an ugly, fat, foul-mouthed, stupid white racist.

The knowledge that someone was trying his best to kill you was overwhelmingly oppressive

We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged.

If I've learned one thing in Spain, it's that we have to fight the Communists just as hard as the Fascists. They're both evil.

y cuando pasó volando por la quinta planta, agitando los brazos en vano

the ultimate truth about oppression: that it works by turning its victims against each other instead of against their oppressors. He

He had heard that people who had the toes chopped off one foot could not stand up, but fell over constantly until they learned to walk again. He felt like that, as if part of him had been amputated, and he could not get used to the idea that it was gone forever.

In the struggle for female equality, Maud reflected, sometimes you had to fight women as well as men.

We have never made a gain, in civil rights, without pressure

Sabes lo que dice la gente? «Cuarenta y cinco años de comunismo y seguimos sin tener papel higiénico» ¡Somos pobres! El comunismo no funciona.

If you're going to have a fight, you might as well fight for what you really want.

He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.

La resistencia pacífica es nuestra única esperanza.

Mi vida ha sido un fracaso —dijo Walter—. Aquí acaban todas las esperanzas. La democracia alemana ha muerto.

A family of Jews were showing their tickets at the head of the gangplank. All Jews wanted to go to America, in Grigori's experience. They had even more reason than he did. In Russia there were laws forbidding them to own land, to enter the civil service, to be army officers, and countless other prohibitions. They could not live where they liked, and there were quotas limiting the number who could go to universities. It was a miracle any of them made a living.

Men were the only animals that slaughtered their own kind by the million, and turned the landscape into a waste of shell craters and barbed wire. Perhaps the human race would wipe itself out completely, and leave the world to the birds and trees