Quotes About Struggle

Underdog stories are easy to tell. It is best to be suspicious of underdog stories.

We can't just have everything without complications, you and I. There'd be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, we'd die unstoried deaths.

Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice?

Being humiliated only makes it easier to restrain you. And being restrained makes it possible to torture you, for the unrestrained cannot be tortured; the unrestrained can only be fought. So to be restrained is to be unable to fight, and to be humiliated is to be readied for torture. To know you have been readied for torture is to await torture. And to await torture is, itself, torture.

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

The worst thing about Communism is what comes after.

Bo kto nie by? ni razu cz?owiekiem, Temu cz?owiek nic nie pomo?e.

Ludzie! ka?dy z was móg?by, samotny, wi?ziony, My?l? i wiar? zwala? i pod?wiga? trony.

O nie! nie... nie... ?eby j? zabi?, Trzeba by? troch? wi?cej ni? pierwszym z szatanów! Precz to ?elazo! (chowa) niech j? w?asna pami?? goni, (Ksi?dz odchodzi) Niech j? sumienia sztylety rani?!

Bo?e! Co? mi rozkaza? spe?ni? kielich ?ycia I zbyt wielki, zbyt gorzki da?e? mi do picia, Je?li wzgl?dów twojego mi?osierdzia godna Cierpliwo??, z któr? gorycz wychyli?em do dna, Jedynej, lecz najwi?kszej ?miem ??da? nagrody: Pob?ogos?aw wnukowi – niechaj umrze m?ody!

Na trzech stoi koronach, a sam bez korony; A ?ycie jego - trud trudów, A tytu? jego - lud ludów; Z matki obcej, krew jego dawne bohatery, A imi? jego czterdzie?ci i cztery.

as for those of you who are complicit, it is not you that I want to destroy, but your shackles

There will be no peace until the violence is done. Peace is inaccessible without the violence, because violence is righteousness in action.

Kindness consistently preoccupies us, and yet most of us are unable to live a life guided by it.

Winnicott once referred to depression as the 'fog over the battlefield'.

Excess is a sign of frustration; we are only excessive wherever there is a frustration we are unaware of, and a fear we cannot bear. An addiction is an unformulated frustration.

Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.

The only satisfactions available are the satisfactions of reality, which are themselves frustrating.

I keep trying to get Matt here to cross back over into fiction, but he insists on slumming it in the theatre like some sort of third-class peasant.

With playwriting, there's a lot of false starts. Ill-fated first acts, etcetera. I blame it all on Shakespeare. He stole all my ideas like three hundred years before I was even born. He futuristically ruined my career.

Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Virginia Woolf, David Foster Wallace, Seneca, Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, William Inge, Anne Sexton, Hart Crane, Yukio Mishima, and John Kennedy Toole.

slaveowners and their allies in the United States tried to protect their country from the most democratic, egalitarian, and terrifying prospect of the Age of Revolution: a generalized slave rebellion.

The whole enterprise involved terror and violence.

The diversity of the slave population was an obstacle to collective resistance, though obviously not an insurmountable one.