Plight Quotes - Page 2

• Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not to say that there are no more everyday pleasures, without which we would loose our humanness. But as our plight deepens, we glimpse how much must be erased for our redemption.

  John Zerzan

  Everyday, Glimpse, Culture

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• Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Government, Principles, Matter

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• The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal.

  William Levada

  Children, Elderly, Scandal

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• The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the new communist rulers of Cambodia, showed that media critics who said we were on the wrong side were mistaken.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Media, People

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• In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christian, Atheist, Humility

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• I think there is too much wrong with the world to ever get too relaxed and happy. The more natural state, and the better one, I think, is one of some anxiety and tension over man's plight in this mysterious universe.

  Woody Allen

  Men, Thinking, Mysterious Universe

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Like no other illness, AIDS tests our ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes - to empathize with the plight of our fellow man. While most would agree that the AIDS orphan or the transfusion victim or the wronged wife contracted the disease through no fault of their own, it has too often been easy for some to point to the unfaithful husband or the promiscuous youth or the gay man and say This is your fault. You have sinned. I don't think that's a satisfactory response. My faith reminds me that we all are sinners.

  Barack Obama

  Husband, Gay, Fighting

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• Seeing the Afghan women in their burqas, it's easy to say, "Well, they're not as fully aware as I am, so why do I have to worry so much about their plight?" But that's a misunderstanding. They are brutally aware of their station.

  Eliza Griswold

  Worry, Easy, Burqa

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend / As a man and a woman that plight / Their troth in the warm spring night.

  Richard Hovey

  Spring, Night, Men

  Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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• When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me.

  Bryan Stevenson

  People, Legacy, Unreliability

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

  Steve Jobs

  Cancer, Sadness, Feelings

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• I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that's what an artist is-a politician.

  Toni Morrison

  Real, Believe, Artist

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.4, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Years, Despair, Backyards

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• mostly we've had to found ways to amuse ourselves." "Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?" Plight's smile faded. "Like human sacrifice." He grabbed one arm and Lenka grabbed the other and Valkyrie cried out. Then they both let go. laughing. "Naw," Plight said, we just play board games." ..."she fell for it!" gasped Lenka. "She fell for the human sacrifice bit!

  Derek Landy

  Letting Go, Sacrifice, Games

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• I tremble because of the sufferings of those persecuted in different lands. I tremble thinking about the eternal destiny of their torturers. I tremble for Western Christians who don't help their persecuted brethren. In the depth of my heart, I would like to keep the beauty of my own vineyard and not be involved in such a huge fight. I would like so much to be somewhere in quietness and rest. But it is not possible... The quietness and rest for which I long would be an escape from reality and dangerous for my soul... The West sleeps and must be awakened to see the plight of the captive nations.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Heart, Sleep

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• Allegra Pazzi: Dr. Fell, do you believe a man could become so obsessed with a woman, from a single encounter?
  
  Hannibal Lecter: Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her and find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bars of his plight and ache for him?

  Thomas Harris

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "Fictional characters: Allegra Pazzi, Hannibal Lecter". "Hannibal", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I want my children - I want Malia and Sasha - to understand that they've got responsibilities beyond just what they themselves have done. That they have a responsibility to the larger community and the larger nation, that they should be sensitive to and extra thoughtful about the plight of people who have been oppressed in the past, are oppressed currently.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Responsibility, Thoughtful

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• ... we did decide to trust Christ, but the reason we made that decision is that God had first made us spiritually alive. ... God comes to us when we're spiritually dead, when we don't even realize our condition, and gives us the spiritual ability to see our plight and to see the solution in Christ. God comes all the way, not partway, to meet us in our need. When we were dead, He made us alive in Christ. And the first act of that new life is to turn in faith to Jesus.

  Jerry Bridges

  Spiritual, Jesus, Giving

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• The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Eye, Fate

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.5, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• It is the plight of man. And while the blame lies partly on the river " Lotus gestures towards the dark waters before us "most of the blame lies on man's inclination to tune into the noise that blares all around him instead of the beautiful silence that lies deep within.

  Alyson Noel

  Beautiful, Lying, Dark

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• She sifted, sighed, and stared up at the ceiling, trying to think about anything but Lord Maccoon, her current predicament, or Lord Akeldama's safety. Which meant she could do nothing but reflect on the complex plight of her mama's more recent embroidery project. Thins, in itself, was a worse torture than any her captors could devise.

  Gail Carriger

  Thinking, Safety, Trying

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• The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Modern, Modern Man

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• I say that is because those are the times where sometimes you feel actually a little bit hurt. Because you feel like saying to these folks, "[Don't] you think if I could do it, I [would] have just done it. Do you think that the only problem is that I don't care enough about the plight of poor people, or gay people, or immigrants, or ...?"

  Barack Obama

  Hurt, Gay, Thinking

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

  Douglas Coupland

  Humanity, Moral, Surprise

  "Hey Nostradamus!". Book by Douglas Coupland, 2003.

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• If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. My gift - bad choice of words - is that I can look at you, him, her, them, whoever, and tell right away what is keeping them awake at night: money; feelings of insignificance; overwhelming boredom; evil children; job troubles; or perhaps death, in one of its many costumes, perched in the wings. What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

  Douglas Coupland

  Jobs, Children, Night

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