Struggle Quotes - Page 11

• A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.

  Max Lerner

  Men, Religion, Belief

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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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• Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.

  Clara Zetkin

  Class, Political, Energy

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• Everything's been a struggle for me.

  Juliana Hatfield

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• Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Impact, People, Records

  "Pop Quiz: Juliana Hatfield". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. September 21, 2008.

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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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• I know for certain people I'm championing a struggle that they're going through.

  Ann Romney

  People, Certain, Knows

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• The issue isn't what you're struggling with, it's how you deal with what you're struggling with

  Gary Inrig

  Issues, Deals

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• People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point. Then I struggle to discover what comes after, so this steadiness is not an end, it is the beginning and the instrument.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  People, Mind, Ends

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.41, Shambhala Publications

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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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• Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Fighting, Kind, Life Is

  "Q & A with Haile Gebrselassie". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 9, 2007.

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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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• The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

  William Ralph Inge

  Games, Life Is, Prize

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• There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

  William Ralph Inge

  Fighting, Hands, Law

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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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• Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

  Euripides

  Knowledge, Skills, Effort

  Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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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 true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Home, Triumph, Conservative

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• If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith, and our capacity for faith), if I did not have faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the world, so that those who are suffering on both sides of this ghastly struggle somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some balm of consolation poured on their wounds, if I did not believe these things, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming.

  Dorothy Day

  Pain, Believe, Evil

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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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• I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

  Scott Caan

  Who I Am, Want, Financial

  "Scott Caan Is a Sensitive Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 24, 2011.

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