Struggle Quotes - Page 32

• The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Party, Mean, Class

  "Dirty Hands". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 5, sc. 3, 1948.

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• For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.

  William Butler Yeats

  Writing, World, Action

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Evil, Waiting, Affliction

  Frederick William Robertson (1868). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series”, p.331

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• Good scholars struggle to understand the world in an integral way (pedants bite off tiny bits and worry them to death). These visions of reality [...] demand our respect, for they are an intellectual's only birthright. They are often entirely wrong and always flawed in serious ways, but they must be understood honorably and not subjected to mayhem by the excision of patches.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Reality, Worry, Vision

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

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• The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Hot Headed, Justice

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• We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice.

  Dorothy Day

  Sleep, Reality, People

  "Month of the Dead". "Catholic Worker", November 1959.

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• The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve.

  Simone Weil

  Innovation, Opponents, Defenders

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.166, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.

  Emile Zola

  Blood, Good Man, Dynasty

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• We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the society it serves to the more ominous threat to its integrity brought about neither by its innate inadequacy nor yet by the incompetence and carelessness of its ordinary users, but rather engineered deliberately by those who will manipulate words for their own ends.

  Chinua Achebe

  Integrity, Ordinary, Language

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.169, Penguin

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• Everything is a struggle. Everything is relative, too, so I still feel like I'm struggling, in many aspects. I'm not worried about paying my rent next month, but in about two months, we'll see.

  Leslie Mann

  Two, Next, Months

  Source: collider.com

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• Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.

  Ho Chi Minh

  War, Independent, Fighting

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• Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.

  Friedrich Engels

  Europe, Class, World

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”

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• Is not the real experience of each individual very limited? And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he not in danger of repeating himself, and also of becoming an egotist? Then, too, imagination is a strong, restless faculty, which claims to be heard and exercised: are we to be quite deaf to her cry, and insensate to her struggles? When she shows us bright pictures, are we never to look at them, and try to reproduce them? And when she is eloquent, and speaks rapidly and urgently in our ear, are we not to write to her dictation?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Real, Writing

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

  John Bolton

  Mass Destruction, Half, Weapons

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• To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken. The power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective.

  C. Wright Mills

  War, Moving, Party

  "The New Men of Power". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1948.

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• The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.

  Benito Mussolini

  Suicide, Life And Love, Hands

  "The Doctrine of Fascism". Book by Benito Mussolini, 1932.

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• The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!

  Benito Mussolini

  Years, Ideas, Two

  "Fundamentals of critical argumentation" by Douglas Walton, (p. 243), 2005.

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• To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to me will be destroyed unread. You must make your way yourself. Why you should be so set on the nearly always disappointing profession is a puzzling question.

  Kingsley Amis

  Writing, Risk, Way

  Kingsley Amis (1990). “The Amis collection: selected non-fiction, 1954-1990”, Arrow

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• It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.

  El Greco

  Artist, Color, Years

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• The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over to the great instruments of last manhood the skilled bow unbenders and Jesuits of our days, the psychiatrists, who, in the same spirit and as part of the same conspiracy of modernity as the peace virtuosos, reduce conflict.

  Allan Bloom

  Self, Opposites, Lasts

  Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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• Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

  Billy Cannon

  Stress, Survival, Vivaldi

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• For me it's about the character, not as much about the genre of it [movie]. I'm excited that I get to work and play interesting characters and I'm not just the girl who gets to play the girlfriend or the wife. I get to play real women who have struggles and troubles and passions and that's always what I hope to do no matter what format that lies in.

  Ali Larter

  Girl, Lying, Real

  "Ali Larter On-Set Interview RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE – Read or Listen Here". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 20, 2010.

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• Fear, fear, breeds hopelessness. When you're afraid, you don't know what to believe in, you don't know what to hold on to. You're struggling to find something to believe in.

  Tavis Smiley

  Believe, Hopelessness, Knows

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been all the significance of its life--a significance which is to vanish as the waters which come and go where no man has need of them?

  George Eliot

  Work, Men, Water

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2423, Delphi Classics

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• I should practice what I preach. It's a lot easier to show and teach people how to love themselves than it is to do it yourself. I still struggle with it sometimes. I wish sometimes I could always feel that I'm good enough, smart enough and gosh darn it, people like me!

  Pandora Boxx

  Smart, Practice, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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