Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Your executives liking your show makes all the difference in the world. It's the difference between happiness and misery. — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
You gotta be happy when you wake up in the morning and look at what's next to ya. You wanna just hop… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“The misery is what should concern us: the death, rage and distress of others always comes back to haunt us. Especially when… — Marc Vachon Copy Share Image
They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
We may have the best of intentions in trying to discern God's will, but we should really stop putting ourselves through the… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.” — Martha Washington Copy Share Image
Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it,… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“There is neither happiness nor misery in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
“Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother’s voice took all of the grief out of the words and left… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is… — Lester Levenson Copy Share Image
What needs to be grasped is that the system itself is the cause of all of the misery in the world. This… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing,… — Mabel Collins Copy Share Image
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“With certainty, I can predict that there will never be a cure to cancer. The only hope for any of us is… — Richard Diaz Copy Share Image
“What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Hold it right there. The only agreement we ever had was that you intended to make me as miserable as possible, and… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
To me, these kind of everyday miseries act as a fatal disqualifier. My sunniest beliefs are basically contingent on the fact that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Michele Bachmann said she wants her three daughters to learn to shoot a gun. Mostly so they can put her campaign out… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually… — Thomas Hartwell Horne Copy Share Image
“...even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Misery is a routine you can learn to live with. It's like rain. Once you're soaked to the skin, you can't get… — Alan Gibbons Copy Share Image
“Dear, dear Cecily, or as I affectionately refer to her in the privacy of my mind, She Who Inflicts Misery Simply by… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image