Struggle Quotes - Page 10

• The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.

  John Keegan

  War, Independence, World

  John Keegan (2012). “A History of Warfare”, p.886, Vintage

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• War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?

  Guy de Maupassant

  Peace, Real, War

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• When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.

  Horace

  Obscure, Ends, Brevity

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• Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Salvation

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• ...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old way ... We weren't starving, we weren't bugged by the police, locked up in madhouses for our ideas, arrested, deported, slave laborers sent to die in concentration camps. We were spared the holocausts and nights of terror. With our advantages we should be formulating the new basic questions for mankind. But instead we sleep. Just sleep and sleep, and eat and play and fuss and sleep again.

  Saul Bellow

  Sleep, Fighting, Night

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• The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Real, Simple, Facts

  FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from Jan 27, 2017

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• And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because otherwise the humiliation will poison your heart. They will take them away from you in a fight, and trying to hold onto your property will only leave you with a bloodied mouth ... But by owning things and trembling about their fate aren't you forfeiting the rare opportunity of observing and understanding?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Heart, Fighting, Fate

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• These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.

  William C. Bryant

  Fate, Aimless Life, Tides

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Crowded Street”

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• Beauty is not defined by the clothes you wear or the makeup on your face BUT by the way you carry your struggles with smiles, hard work & love

  Lauren Jauregui

  Hard Work, Makeup, Clothes You Wear

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• Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

  Malcolm X

  Culture, Weapons, Indispensable

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

  Eric Hoffer

  Shelter, Poverty, Desperate

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

  Victor Hugo

  Depression, Blow, Order

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did.

  Margaret Cho

  People, Century, Coming Out

  "Outing (And Why Gay Celebrities Need to Leave the Closet)" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

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• If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

  Nicole McKay

  Art, Bricks, Problem

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• I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

  Robert Breault

  Equality, People, Looks

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• Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Reality, Way

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.26, Penguin

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• Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Thinking, Essentials, Three

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.181, Best Books on

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• The future struggles that it may not become the past.

  Publilius Syrus

  Future, Past, May

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• Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Water, Looks

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (letter to Lord Chesterfield, 7 Feb. 1755)

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• Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence, --the savage struggle which undermines the finest qualities in man, and ever widens the social abyss. In short, Anarchism strives towards a social organization which will establish well-being for all.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Men, Organization

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.25, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Long, Use, Alive

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• The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Choices, Political, Elements

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• The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.

  Paul Gauguin

  Stupid, Men, Hands

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin”, p.93, Routledge

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• Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

  Charles Kennedy

  Opportunity, Should Have, Further Education

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• If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.

  Mao Zedong

  Would Be, World, Contradiction

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