Afflict Quotes

52 quotes by 46 authors

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome — Ben Jonson
All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people — Henry Adams
Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy… — David Halberstam
O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! — William Shakespeare
If there is any one thing most needed in this time of tumult and frustration, when men and women and youth and young adults are… — Ann M. Dibb
He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse. — Edmund Spenser
Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best! — Thomas Gray
There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well… — Jocelyn Murray
Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform. — Samuel Smiles
War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces.… — Aneurin Bevan
It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world. — Eric Hoffer
Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the… — Antoine Lavoisier
The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of… — David L. Katz
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. — Robert Frost
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily… — John Kenneth Galbraith
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. — Martin Luther
Little things console us because little things afflict us. — Blaise Pascal
Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. — Finley Peter Dunne
The saints should always remember that God sees not as man sees; that he does not willingly afflict his children, and that if he requires… — George Q. Cannon

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