The only real struggle in the history of the world … is between the vested interest and social justice. —Arnold Toynbee More about this quote Tags: justice politics history power struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Arnold Toynbee The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against the tigers than they are today, when we have become defenseless against ourselves. —Arnold Toynbee More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. —Arnold Toynbee More about this quote Tags: dreams goals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. —Arnold Toynbee More about this quote Tags: history USA dogs analogy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against the tigers than they are today, when we have become defenseless against ourselves. —Arnold Toynbee More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. —Arnold Toynbee More about this quote Tags: dreams goals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. —Arnold Toynbee More about this quote Tags: history USA dogs analogy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “struggle” I think I'm only now realizing how hard it must be to be a woman. Too thin or not thin enough. Do your job flawlessly, but don't show up any of the men. Speak up, but don't be bitchy. Smile. —Christina Lauren in Dating You / Hating You More about this quote Tags: difficulty feminism struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. —Pablo Picasso More about this quote Tags: difficulty age struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email So much that was beautiful and so much that was hard to bear. Yet whenever I showed myself ready to bear it, the hard was directly transformed into the beautiful. —Etty Hillesum More about this quote Tags: beauty struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. —Iris Murdoch More about this quote Tags: art struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom. —Chögyam Trungpa More about this quote Tags: freedom struggle nonaggression Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think I'm only now realizing how hard it must be to be a woman. Too thin or not thin enough. Do your job flawlessly, but don't show up any of the men. Speak up, but don't be bitchy. Smile. —Christina Lauren in Dating You / Hating You More about this quote Tags: difficulty feminism struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. —Pablo Picasso More about this quote Tags: difficulty age struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So much that was beautiful and so much that was hard to bear. Yet whenever I showed myself ready to bear it, the hard was directly transformed into the beautiful. —Etty Hillesum More about this quote Tags: beauty struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. —Iris Murdoch More about this quote Tags: art struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom. —Chögyam Trungpa More about this quote Tags: freedom struggle nonaggression Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email