If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we…

“If you are a special intelligent expect that God or people from "relatives or from strangers or friends,..." to get you down and your…

— Ramy Mohamed Sabry

Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical.

— Stephen Hawking

“A life of hardship and personal suffering is unavoidable. A person must endure many humiliations of the mind and body, and expect persons whom…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“I only insist that meaning is possible even in spite of suffering—provided, certainly, that the suffering is unavoidable. If it were avoidable, however, the…

— Viktor E. Frankl

But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.

— Ted Dekker

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

I think raising wages, investing in infrastructure, making sure that people have access to good educations that equip them for the jobs of the…

— Barack Obama

The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need to get…

— Ted Turner

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of your own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and…

— Babe Paley

We are at the point in time and terror where nothing short of a strong uniform policy of domestic disarmament will alleviate the danger…

— Patrick V. Murphy

I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than…

— David Harsanyi

I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is…

— Sting

I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.

— Rebecca Lee Crumpler

How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be…

— Molly Ivins

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,…

— Joseph Addison