Careful Words

struggle (n.)

struggle (v.)

  We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.

Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The Origin of Species. Chap. iii.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.—Malthus: On Population. chap. iii. p. 48 (1798).

  When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. Vol. i. p. 526.

  Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881): Coningsby. Book iii. Chap. i.

  You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Reflections on the Revolution in France. Vol. iii. p. 277.