Struggle Quotes - page 72

The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process. (Alan Dershowitz)
I've got actor friends who didn't get breaks, who struggle and worry about things that I'm fortunate not to have to worry about. View quote
Clive Owen
It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which cause the economic struggle, the war and the strife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace. View quote
Max Heindel
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me. View quote
Anne Bancroft
Let us take social struggle at its most violent: war. What interests Hegel is not struggle as such, but the way the "truth"of the engaged positions emerges through it, namely how the warring parties are "reconciled"through their mutual destruction. The true (spiritual) meaning of war is not honor, victory, defense, etc., but the emergence of absolute negativity (death_ as the absolute Master which reminds us of the false stability of our organized finite lives. War serves to elevate individuals to their "truth" by making them renounce their particular self interested identify with the State's universality. View quote
Slavoj Žižek
The contemporary era constantly proclaims itself as post-ideological, but this denial of ideology only provides the ultimate proof that we are more than ever embedded in ideology. Ideology is always a field of struggle - among other things, the struggle for appropriating past traditions. View quote
Slavoj Žižek
There should be no compromise here: anti-Semitism is not just one-among ideologies; it is ideology as such kat'exohen. It embodies the zero-level (or the purest form) of ideology, providing its elementary coordinates: social antagonist ("class struggle") is mystified and displaced so that its cause is projected onto the external intruder. View quote
Slavoj Žižek
The protracted struggle which dragged on in Egypt was not a conflict of visions, but the conflict between a vision of freedom, the "eternal" Platonic Idea of Freedom, and a blind clinging to power ready to use all means possible- terror, food deprivation, exhaustion, bribery- to crush the will to freedom. View quote
Slavoj Žižek
The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy. (Marilyn Manson)
An icon of the struggle for life. View quote
Nkosi Johnson
The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers in their constant struggle to bring novel products to consumers at low cost. View quote
Ronald Coase
To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
This struggle is not about sex. It is about privacy, individuality, and civil equality and the right of all Americans, not just gay and lesbian Americans, to be free. View quote
Michael Nava
It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel. View quote
Ted Turner
To struggle when hope is banished To live when lifes salt is gone To dwell in a dream thats vanished To endure, and go calmly on. View quote
Ben Jonson
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it. View quote
Maya Angelou
The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon. View quote
Al Gore
I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides from which I struggle not to stray. When I look behind, as I am compelled to look before I can gather strength to proceed on my journey, I see the milestones dwindling toward the horizon and the slow fires trailing from the abandoned campsites over which scavenger angels wheel on heavy wings. Oh, I have made myself a tribe out of my true affections, and my tribe is scattered! How shall the heart be reconciled to its feast of losses? In a rising wind the manic dust of my friends, those who fell along the way, bitterly stings my face. Yet I turn, I turn, exulting somewhat, with my will intact to go wherever I need to go and every stone on the road precious to me. In my darkest night, when the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage, a nimbus-clouded voice directed me: "Live in the layers, not on the litter." (Stanley Kunitz)
Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic. View quote
Dennis Quaid
Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings. View quote
Edward Said
The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed. View quote
Bill James
Kala is about my mum and her struggle–how do you work, feed your children, nurture them and give them the power of information? View quote
M.I.A.