Misery Quotes

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Picture me inside the misery of poverty, no man alive has ever witnessed struggles ive survived, praying hard for better days promised to hold on… — Tupac Shakur
Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction. — Lynn Johnston
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
The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and… — David Walker
The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every… — John Peter Altgeld
I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated… — Oscar Arias
Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious… — Frances Perkins
I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery. — George Washington
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. — Lewis Mumford
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the… — Oscar Wilde
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of… — Khalil Gibran
Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion… — Sissela Bok
Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on. — George Soros
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable. — George Eliot
My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe… — Muhammad Yunus
Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was so much better… — Sonia Sotomayor
If they had $2.00 for food, they had to give $1.00 to the union. Otherwise, they would never get out of the trap of poverty.… — Cesar Chavez
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have suffered not only… — Cesar Chavez
However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human… — Cesar Chavez

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