Human Suffering Quotes

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An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human… — Clara Barton
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering. — Harold Bloom
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance...... — John Calvin
Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering. — Richard Dawkins
A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish… — Elie Wiesel
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
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. — Andrea Dworkin
Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a dog. I think… — Charles Krauthammer
What I love most about nature is how indifferent it is to us humans and human suffering. While we are here with our little or… — Valzhyna Mort
War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. Itâ€™s going… — Jacque Fresco
The future is our responsibility, but change will not take place until the majority loose confidence in their dictatorâ€™s and elected officialsâ€™ ability to solve… — Jacque Fresco
People say that the monetary system produces incentive. Â This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy,… — Jacque Fresco
A Resource-Based Economy is in the application of the methods of science with human concern and environmental concern. If we used the scientific method throughout… — Jacque Fresco
I love the majesty of human suffering. — Alfred de Vigny
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-gardenâ€¦Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its… — Octave Mirbeau
Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes… — Jared Diamond
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers… — Pope John Paul II
Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth. — Tom Lantos

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