Grievances Quotes
79 quotes by 73 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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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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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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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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That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I've always been a big supporter of the Constitutional right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition government for redress of grievances. It's just…
— Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
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The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of…
— Lilian Whiting
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When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking about your grievances…
— Thomas Dreier
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I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I…
— Anzia Yezierska
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But how ridiculous that I should bereft simply because I couldn’t spend hours in my world of make-believe! Wasn’t the reality of my life interesting…
— Liza Dalby
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Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger…
— Thomas Carper
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