All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The equivocations, the confusions, the contradictions. There's no way we can live through or comprehend something so big that happened so long… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late… — Shigeru Yoshida Copy Share Image
“It was not pastoral teaching, or small group fellowship, or worship services, or books of theology — rather, they mentioned suffering. “People… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of… — James Balog Copy Share Image
Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“when you are earning money by doing what you don’t particularly like, there will be an urgent need to buy pleasure and… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
“For the Lord dwells in long-suffering, but the devil in anger. The two spirits, then, when dwelling in the same habitation, are… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“We are created precisely for this type of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Most of our suffering comes from resisting what is already here, particularly our feelings. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed,… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Visual renditions of war not only establish what can be seen, and the audio-track established what can be heard, but the photographs… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
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“The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sustainability is no longer optional. Companies that fail to adopt such practices will perish. They will not only lose cost basis: they… — John Replogle Copy Share Image
Anyone who is contemplating going to Afghanistan does need to think very carefully about the consequences, both to them and their families… — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
“Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Feminists are forever discovering subtle new forms of sexism and then beating men around the head and shoulders with it. It is… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's better to regret tomorrow because of the choices I make today, than to regret tomorrow because of the choices someone made… — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
“Knowing how easily even the smallest things torture me, I deliberately avoid contact with them. A cloud passing in front of the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I once found a phoenix charred in its own ashes. I brought it home with me, wept through the night, and then… — J. Andrew Schrecker Copy Share Image
I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To subject to scrutiny the mechanisms which render life painful, even untenable, is not to neutralize them; to bring to light contradictions… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“He undressed, lay down, put out the light. Two names he whispered into his pillow, the few chaste northern syllables that meant… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“To you I speak with much hesitation about suffering. . . . But there is an introduction to suffering which comes with… — Thomas Kelly Copy Share Image
The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
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