Human Misery Quotes

33 quotes by 32 authors

When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in… — John Howard Griffin
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. — Heinrich Heine
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew… — Benjamin Rush
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before or since, capitalized… — George H. Smith
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human… — John F. Kennedy
As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and… — Daniel Defoe
It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes scold God because… — Neal A. Maxwell
You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery. — Norman Borlaug
I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of beauty even though… — Saul Leiter
What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain… — Kurt Vonnegut
Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our mates is that… — Jared Diamond
Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one… — Victoria Woodhull
Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a monstrous… — Isaac Bonewits
The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms. — Blaise Pascal
Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in… — Phineas Quimby
Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster. — Frederick Lenz
Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lordâ€™s wounds at armâ€™s length. Yet Jesus wants us to touch human… — Pope Francis
Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals as the soft-headed… — Bob Torres

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