Grievance Quotes
108 quotes by 96 authors
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Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to…
— John O. Brennan
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It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual…
— James Buchan
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Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for…
— William J. Clinton
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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
— Aesop
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One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by…
— Thomas Sowell
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Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.
— Lance Morrow
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What you think upon grows. Whatever you allow to occupy your mind you magnify in your life. Whether the subject of your thought be good…
— Emmet Fox
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All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make…
— George Orwell
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And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or…
— Samuel Adams
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Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty…
— Samuel Johnson
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When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was catapulted to prominence with the…
— Mary Fulbrook
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Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.
— Deepak Chopra
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To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
— Alan Coren
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
— Edward Abbey
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It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case…
— Thomas Paine
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To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.
— Jacques Barzun
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Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they…
— John F. Kennedy
Who Wrote These Grievance Quotes
96 authors contributed a total of 108 Grievance Quotes, led by these top contributors: