Quotes About Struggle

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

Losing his wealth, his home, the life he had built, killed my father. He didn't die right away; it took four decades of exile to finish him off.

Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it.

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.

Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.

I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

My mum and dad weren't wealthy people. We used to have pasta every day, meat once a week, fish was once every two weeks, presents only at Christmas and birthday.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.

My first series, the 'Inheritance' trilogy, in the first book, you were dealing with a woman of color from an impoverished culture, being brought up among wealthy, privileged white people and having to cope and perform in ways that she has not been raised to do, and that was obviously drawn from some personal experiences.

When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she'll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family.

My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart.

Death, disease, and divorce affect wealthy suburbs as well as the inner city.

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

Sometimes people who get wealthy when they are very, very young, it's a curse to them. They don't realize it.