Defence Quote by Henry Spira

it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

— Harriet Martineau

In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of…

— Tariq Ali

High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.

— H. L. Mencken

People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.

— Bessie Head

“Isolating oneself into a narrowly defined victim group promotes a view of others as irrelevant at best and dangerous at worst, which eventually only…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.

— Gary Bauer

The government needs to defend its people, to take necessary actions even if they are extremely painful and tragic.

— Isaac Herzog

We oppress people, we make our victims small wherever they are, whether they are a black girl in a rural community in, say, America…

— Roma Tearne

Like the suffering child, gang members act out of their despair, and their actions are all the more alarming now for our not having…

— Greg Boyle

Those who are not aware of the real and limitless resources lying dormant within human life are deprived, and this self-deprivation is the cause…

— Senora Roy

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

— Fulton J. Sheen

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have…

— Thabo Mbeki