Best conditions & struggle Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.”

People Sometimes Difficult Struggle Conditions Broken Revolution Mass Direct Revolutionary Motive Joining Vogue Carried Away

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“As we know, the goal of every struggle is victory. But if the proletariat is to achieve victory, all the workers, irrespective of nationality, must be united. Clearly, the demolition of national barriers and close unity between the Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Polish, Jewish and other proletarians is a necessary condition for the victory of the proletariat of all Russia.”

Ifs Knows Goal United Struggle Achieve Conditions Victory Unity Workers Russia Barriers Polish Nationality Proletariat Armenians Demolition Georgians

Author:Joseph Stalin

“Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those who suffer to the most energetic struggles to improve their lot, and if these struggles only immediately result in sharper misery, the outcome is sheer desperation.”

Ifs Suffering Results Vision Struggle Conditions Possibility Misery Miserable Outcomes Sheer Desperation Energetic Spurs

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle.”

Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London, relative to that event. In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris ... The seventh edition

“I'm like one of those firecrackers that goes off in your pocket occasionally. I'm not really struggling with it as much as the people around me. But at least I'm not doing too much damage to anybody or to myself. It's just the condition I'm aware of.”

People Struggle Too Much Conditions Damage Pockets Firecracker

Author:Robert Plant

“The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.”

Heart Enough Facts Problem Existence Darkness Struggle Conditions Lays Species Adaptation Notorious Struggle For Existence Variability

Book:Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life on the condition that to the last you shall struggle hard for it. Every man holds a discovery on the same terms.”

Men Made Hard Lasts Term Struggle Conditions Words Of Wisdom Discovery Every Man Buried

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.”

Men Years Ends God Three Nations Party Struggle Conditions Claims Expected Three Years

Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln

“...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent.... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.... The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].”

“Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble, fatigue--an exertion both painful and compulsory. Labor was our animal condition, struggling to survive in dirt and darkness.”

“The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the successes ... both noble and foolish, are readily apparent in the desert. Symbols and relationships seem to arise that stand for the human condition itself.”

Men Humans May Seems Struggle Environment Conditions Photography Noble Foolish Arise Symbols Desert Human Condition Backdrop

Book:Desert Cantos

Source: Desert Cantos

“The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will conduct electronic communication under the conditions of freedom established for the domain of print through centuries of struggle, or whether that great achievement will become lost in a confusion of new technologies.”

Firsts Lost Technology Struggle Conditions Century Communication Achievement Twenties Determine Confusion Print Domain Free Society New Technology Great Achievement Electronic Communication

Book:Technologies of Freedom

Source: Technologies of Freedom

“Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.”

Made Happens Lying Struggle Economic Conditions Doing Nothing Gentility

Author:Emily James Smith Putnam

“I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.”

Men Life Is Values Struggle Conditions Honest Judging Judgment Value Of Life

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“My family moved to the Philippines when I was 14. While living there, I learned that my mom grew up very poor. Seeing that kind of abject poverty firsthand during my travels deeply shaped my life. Seeing those living conditions motivated me to want to tell inspiring stories of struggle and triumph.”

Want Kind Stories Poor Poverty Struggle Seeing Conditions Grew Mom Grew Up My Family Moved My Mom Triumph Motivated Philippines Living Conditions Inspiring Stories

Author:Manny Pacquiao

“I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.”

People Belief Challenges Struggle Conditions Fronts Offers Hearted Challenging Times

Author:K'naan

“How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!”

Source: The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

“Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.”

Trying Humans Mean Pain Struggle Conditions Figures Laughter Human Condition Gigs No Pain

Author:Lenny Bruce

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