Human Misery Quotes

33 quotes by 32 authors

• Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the… — Tony Blair
• Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to… — George Bernard Shaw
• Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm. — Euripides
• When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? — Eleanor Roosevelt
• But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse — Cormac McCarthy
• Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end.… — Euripides
• Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves. — Carl Sagan
• There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery. — Gilles Deleuze
• If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to… — Sam Harris
• The history of empires is the history of human misery. — Edward Gibbon
• The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's… — Max Lucado
• Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face… — John Ortberg
• If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery. — Michael Harrington

Who Wrote These Human Misery Quotes

32 authors contributed a total of 33 Human Misery Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Human Misery Quotes by Euripides
• 1 Human Misery Quote by Victoria Woodhull
• 1 Human Misery Quote by Tony Blair
• 1 Human Misery Quote by Saul Leiter
• 1 Human Misery Quote by Sam Harris
• 1 Human Misery Quote by Pope Francis
• 1 Human Misery Quote by Phineas Quimby
• 1 Human Misery Quote by Norman Borlaug
• 1 Human Misery Quote by Neal A. Maxwell
• 1 Human Misery Quote by Michael Harrington
• 1 Human Misery Quote by Max Lucado
• 1 Human Misery Quote by Kurt Vonnegut
• 1 Human Misery Quote by John Ortberg
• 1 Human Misery Quote by John Howard Griffin
• 1 Human Misery Quote by John F. Kennedy
• 1 Human Misery Quote by Jared Diamond
• 1 Human Misery Quote by Isaac Bonewits
• 1 Human Misery Quote by Heinrich Heine
• 1 Human Misery Quote by Gilles Deleuze
• 1 Human Misery Quote by George H. Smith
• 1 Human Misery Quote by George Bernard Shaw
• 1 Human Misery Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg
• 1 Human Misery Quote by Frederick Lenz
• 1 Human Misery Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
• 1 Human Misery Quote by Edward Gibbon