Suffering Quotes - Page 107

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well as good; freedom to enjoy the rewards of good judgment, and freedom to suffer the penalties of bad judgment. If this is not true, the word "freedom" has no meaning.

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe.

The statistic that 67 percent of women's admissions to the psychiatric facilities are during the week before menstruation is critically important to every woman, and to every woman who feels she suffers from depression.

Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.

You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes and the lack of direct human discourse.

If one woman is suffering, then we are all suffering, and we need to put a voice to that.

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much; but they also suffer much.

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

A girl should command attention, not suffer it.

You need to suffer to be interesting.

As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.

Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is the poor citizens of the world who will suffer the most from our excesses.

Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.