Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“I thought there were limits to human suffering. At Bir-Jdid, I was to discover that there were none” — Malika Oufkir Copy Share Image
The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
“Human suffering is caused mainly by ideas, emotions, and thoughts which are the handiwork of the human itself.” — Shai Tubali Copy Share Image
“Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Where I find it very difficult to get comedy from and where I naturally don't go is human suffering. — Omid Djalili Copy Share Image
Why do we write novels or make television about real things? It's the human condition and human suffering. — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
After the dead are buried, after the physical pain of grief has become a permanent wound in the soul, then comes the… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Passing a beggar who asks for money causes discomfort - and so it should. The act of facing and acknowledging human suffering… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
“Human rights are being violated on every continent. More people are oppressed than free. How can one not be sensitive to their… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Child pornography is taboo. There are really no such things as snuff films. That's a legend. But movies are like pieces of… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I didn’t create poverty. This church didn’t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all,… — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from… — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
In our fibre-optic world of tweets and tablets, we are more conscious of the world around us. The technicolour violence and humanitarian… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
“He has described in precise, measured words the beautiful desolation he feels at the close of novels where the message is that… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet… — Curtis White Copy Share Image
To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I talked about the human suffering in Iraq. And I also saw the need to advance a freedom agenda. Imagine a world… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Joan's openness to God, in other words, had practical consequences that could be understood only with the passing of time - precisely… — Donald Spoto Copy Share Image
“Nothing whatsoever, not even the existence of God to His lovers, can be proved, but that every man, if he is to… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“Are you saying the end of human suffering began with an amusement park?” “I’m saying the end of human suffering is a… — T.S. Welti Copy Share Image
“I realized that more and more I was saying, 'It seems to me that we have come to the time war ought… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
“I sing of those who cannot. To view human suffering as an abstraction, as a statement about how plucky we all are,… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“The question was whether an ape which was being used to develop a poliomyelitis serum, and for this reason punctured again and… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“...But if we are to say anything important, if fiction is to stay relevant and vibrant, then we have to ask the… — Michael Copperman Copy Share Image
“Even doctors — or perhaps especially doctors — need to be touched by something personally to understand the suffering of others. We’ve… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
“If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is easy to blame television or the movies or rap music for desensitizing our children to human suffering, to violence, and… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The question haunts me still, and will, I suppose, until I join my parents in our final reunion. If the doctor had… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan. — Eric Reeves Copy Share Image
“Hope, that palliative of every human suffering: in desperation, we cling to the flimsiest of straws.” — Cyrus Mistry Copy Share Image
“The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.” — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
“Seeing human suffering changes you. It either makes you compassionate or it makes you hard.” — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering. — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change… — Susan George Copy Share Image
A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
