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Quotes About Struggle

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.
~ Muhammad Ali
Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me.
~ Nigel Mansell
Palestinians have no wealth or power.
~ Noam Chomsky
What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.
~ Noam Chomsky
Sometimes when we're in situations where we feel we're not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making ourselves feel we have some power.
~ Patricia McCormick
As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.
~ Peter Ackroyd
For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
~ Omar Bongo
In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.
~ Robert Browning
Sweetie, in our world, fair's got nothing to do with anything. He who has the greatest power wins. It's why we're all willing to kill each other off without flinching. (Solin)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The real in me longs for peace. The unreal in me longs for power.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Right now we're in the midst of a grand experiment on how best to harness the incredible power of the Internet while we struggle to maintain useful boundaries among the different parts of our lives.
~ Stewart D. Friedman
No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.
~ Tammy Bruce
They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.
~ Tim O'Brien
If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
~ Tom Stoppard
The Magicians Apprentice was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.
~ Trudi Canavan
Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.
~ William Shakespeare
But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
...he walked up and down through life.
~ Charles Dickens
Wherever I found a living creature there I found the will to power.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Why people suffer thou the is government. It is because everyone fight into power to take care of themselves than to serve the people in need.
~ De philosopher DJ Kyos
I have been at war with parts of myself for so long
~ Mohadesa Najumi
Don't you know no one can escapethe power of creatures reaching outwith breath alone?
~ Marina Tsvetaeva
The promise of power wasn't enough, he thought. So now she tempts me with knowledge.
~ Anthony Ryan, Blood Song
The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust rags to rags fear to fear.
~ V.S. Naipaul, The Mimic Men