Embattled Quotes

What they can take credit for is the increased local interest in Burning Man. If people care about Burning Man as much as Borg2 indicates, they might turn their attention away from the small, embattled group that created it. - Larry Harvey

Those whose only aim is to barter the energies of life for gold, or name, or any other enjoyment; those to whom the tramp of embattled cohorts is the only manifestation of power; those to whom the enjoyment of the senses is the only bliss that life c. - Swami Vivekananda

The one thing that Qwest has is its local franchise, and over the next two years it's going to become increasingly embattled as (cable company) Comcast starts rolling out more aggressively with their digital voice service. I don't think they get acquired at all. - Donna Jaegers

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress. - Helene Deutsch

Ran on embattled armies clad in iron, / And weaponless himself, / Made arms ridiculous. - John Milton

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath. - Matthew Macfadyen

I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around. - Bernadine Dohrn