One does not wait for the "ripe" objective circumstances…

It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up…

— Irvine Welsh

Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the proposed…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Perhaps you should not think too hard on the political struggles. I think it is better if you find your freedom in Christ. He,…

— Sarah Holman

“some activists and theorists treat aesthetic objects and creative works as displaying a political potentiality missing from classes, parties, and unions. This aesthetic focus…

— Anonymous

“The self is configured in ways that both reflect and influence the very foundations of social life and everyday living. Without the guidance set…

— Philip Cushman

“The necessity of political struggle especially means confronting and contradicting those on the left who say that resistance is futile. Such people have no…

— Lierre Keith

“the long and bitter political struggle in which he had engaged against slavery had not prepared Mr. Douglass to take up the equally difficult…

— Booker T. Washington

“Another effect of this deplorable perversion of the law is, that it gives to human passions and to political struggles, and, in general, to…

— Frédéric Bastiat

It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has to be…

— Ruth Ozeki

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires…

— Mahatma Gandhi

None of Ho Chi Minh's colleagues was as dedicated to the use of political struggle, psychological warfare, and diplomatic means as he was.

— William J. Duiker

Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The pigs are the capitalist state, and as such define the limits of all political struggles; to the extent that a revolutionary struggle shows…

— Weather Underground

There were various aspects of Sun Tzu's approach that appealed to Ho Chi Minh: a) to learn to understand both the enemy and yourself,…

— William J. Duiker

Political struggle is the most important thing any of us can do as a citizen in a democracy; and that means the old joining…

— Jonathan Kozol