Quotes About Struggle

It is much harder to struggle against irrelevance than against exploitation.

As Nietzsche put it, if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how. A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is. Though

Few gods, nations, or revolutions can sustain themselves without martyrs.

THE ANCIENT ROMANS WERE USED TO being defeated. Like the rulers of most of history's great empires, they could lose battle after battle but still win the war.

La historia de la ética es un triste relato de ideales maravillosos que nadie cumple.

the realest thing in the world is suffering.

Radical Islam is in a far worse position than socialism. It has not yet come to terms even with the Industrial Revolution

Of all human collective activities, the one most difficult to organise is violence.

Generation für Generation beteten die Menschen zu jedem Gott, jedem Engel, jedem Heiligen, und sie erfanden unzählige Instrumente, Institutionen und Gesellschaftssysteme – trotzdem starben sie weiter millionenfach an Hunger, Epidemien und Gewalt. Viele Denker und Propheten kamen zu dem Schluss, Hunger, Krankheit und Krieg seien eben fester Bestandteil von Gottes kosmischem Plan oder unserer unvollkommenen Natur, und erst am Ende aller Zeit würden wir davon befreit werden.

humans suffer from insufficient data, from faulty programming (genetic and cultural), from muddled definitions, and from the chaos of life.

J?gpilna dz?ve pat p?rbaud?jumos sniedz gandar?jumu, bet bezj?dz?ga dz?ve pat vis?rt?kajos apst?k?os p?rv?ršas par mok?m.

Perhaps in the twenty-first century populist revolts will be staged not against an economic elite that exploits people but against an economic elite that does not need them anymore.6 This may well be a losing battle. It is much harder to struggle against irrelevance than against exploitation.

if five hundred million affluent Europeans cannot absorb a few million impoverished refugees, what chance does humanity have of overcoming the far deeper conflicts that beset our global civilization?

When I was twenty-one, I finally realized that I was gay, after several years of living in denial. That's hardly exceptional. Many gay men spend their entire teenage years unsure about their sexuality.

In the twenty-first century, however, data will eclipse both land and machinery as the most important asset, and politics will be a struggle to control the flow of data. If data becomes concentrated in too few hands, humankind will split into different species.

each group and subgroup faces a different maze of glass ceilings, double standards, coded insults, and institutional discrimination.

Identity is defined by conflicts and dilemmas more than by agreement

In the century following the Cook expedition, the most fertile lands of Australia and New Zealand were taken from their previous inhabitants by European settlers. The native population dropped by up to 90 per cent and the survivors were subjected to a harsh regime of racial oppression. For the Aborigines of Australia and the Maoris of New Zealand, the Cook expedition was the beginning of a catastrophe from which they have never recovered.

The pursuit of an easier life resulted in much hardship, and not for the last time. It happens to us today.

There is no justice in history

La hambruna, la peste y la guerra coparon siempre los primeros puestos de la lista. Generación tras generación, los seres humanos rezaron a todos los dioses, ángeles y santos, e inventaron innumerables utensilios, instituciones y sistemas sociales…, pero siguieron muriendo por millones a causa del hambre, las epidemias y la violencia.

A maior parte das redes de cooperação humana foi concebida para a opressão e a exploração.

But humans enjoyed all of these advantages for a full 2 million years during which they remained weak and marginal creatures. Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big brains and sharp stone tools, dwelt in constant fear of predators, rarely hunted large game, and subsisted mainly by gathering plants, scooping up insects, stalking small animals, and eating the carrion left behind by other more powerful carnivores.

Los antiguos romanos estaban acostumbrados a ser derrotados. Al igual que los mandatarios de la mayor parte de los grandes imperios de la historia, podían perder batalla tras batalla pero aun así ganar la guerra.