Human Misery Quotes
33 quotes by 32 authors
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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
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Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
— Heinrich Heine
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.
— Norman Borlaug
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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
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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
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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
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Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one…
— Victoria Woodhull
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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
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
— Blaise Pascal
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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
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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
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Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us to touch human…
— Pope Francis
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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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