Quotes about Struggle

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

I love Humanity but I hate humans

A storm broke loose in my mind.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

The fanatical atheists...are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against the traditional 'opium of the people'—cannot bear the music of the spheres.

I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.

Dare to face the situation...Man has become a superman... But the superman with the superhuman power has not risen to the level of superhuman reason. To the degree which his power grows he becomes more and more a poor man... It must shake up our conscience that we become all the more inhuman the more we grow into superhuman.

I don't want to be a prisoner of comfort.

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

I am I, and I wish I weren't.