Quotes about Struggle

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Fame can be a double-edged sword, and you have to take the bad with the good. The highs are incredibly high, and the lows can be incredibly low.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

The same strength which has extended our power beyond a continent has also interwoven our destiny with the destiny of many peoples and brought us into a vast web of history in which other wills, running in oblique or contrasting directions to our own, inevitably hinder or contradict what we most fervently desire. We cannot simply have our way, not even when we believe our way to have the "happiness of mankind" as its promise.

the evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own.

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fullness of life which each man seeks

Men insist most vehemently upon their certainties when their hold upon them has been shaken.