Ills Quotes

220 Ills quotes by 180 unique authors

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. — Napoleon Bonaparte
We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear; With God and Fate to rail at, suffering… — Matthew Arnold
But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted… — Will Rogers
Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it… — Will Rogers
Old age is the harbor of all ills. — Wilfred Bion
I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned, there is a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Paralysis, anxiety stomachs, arthritis and many ills and aberrations have been relieved by auditing them. An E-Meter shows them up and makes them confess their… — Lawrence Wright
Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close,… — Mark Lawrence
The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters. — Edwin Moses
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it… — John W. Gardner
One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing. — Emma Goldman
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. — Charles Caleb Colton
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. — Epicurus
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's… — Audrey Hepburn
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. — Eric Hoffer
Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man… — Homer
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. — Carl Jung
Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies. — Tony Kushner
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. — Giacomo Leopardi
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. — C.S. Lewis
Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills. — George McGovern
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders… — Moliere
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people… — P.J. O'Rourke
As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide. — Steven Pinker

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