Human Suffering Quotes

• We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

  Jose Marti

  People, Evil, Political

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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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 suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

  Clara Barton

  Selfish, Evil, Suffering

  Clara Barton (1899). “The Red Cross in peace and war”

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• Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Suffering, Concern

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.171, Schocken

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• Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Compassion, Suffering, Able

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• If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Suffering, Meaning Of Life, Mans Search For Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.73, Beacon Press

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• We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  War, Japan, Feelings

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• 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

  Morning, Children, Two

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• The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

  Ralph Merkle

  Technology, Suffering, Benefits

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• 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 of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.

  Pope John Paul II

  Catholic, Suffering, Spirit

  Pope John Paul II (2007). “Pope John Paul II: A Reader”

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• The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Men, Humanity, Suffering

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• 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

  What Matters, Color, Hygiene

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• The more I think about the human suffering in our world and my desire to offer a healing response, the more I realize how crucial it is not to allow myself to become paralyzed by feelings of helplessness and guilt. More important than ever is to be very faithful to my vocation to do well the few things I am called to do and hold on to the joy and peace they bring me. I must resist the temptation to let the forces of darkness pull me into despair and make me one more of their many victims.

  Henri Nouwen

  Healing, Thinking, Our World

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• A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Roots, Suffering

  James Russell Lowell (1897). “Literary and political addresses”

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• Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

  Bill Hybels

  Healing, Suffering, Church

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2010

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• What is the greatest deficiency among human Chrsitians? They have an inadequate view of human suffering.

  Helmut Thielicke

  Views, Suffering, Deficiency

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• War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. It’s going to take the redesign of our culture and values.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, Significant Change, Suffering

  "Zeitgeist: Addendum". Documentary, History, War, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• 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 poverty is to be abhorred. For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Lying, Lakes

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• Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

  John Calvin

  Suffering, Chance, Inevitable

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• 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 people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Compassion, People

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• 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 on human suffering; and it was enormously successful in insuring its own existence through the perpetuation of human suffering.

  George H. Smith

  Successful, Suffering, Religion

  George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.309, Prometheus Books

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• 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

  Father, Reality, Suffering

  "Science saves". www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2004.

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• By working to alleviate the suffering of animals you are working at the cause level of human suffering.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Suffering, Levels

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

  Susan George

  Suffering, Degrees, Organisation

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• In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Suffering, Tools, Radiation

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• I talked about the human suffering in Iraq. And I also saw the need to advance a freedom agenda. Imagine a world in which Saddam Hussein was there, stirring up even more trouble in a part of the world that had so much resentment and so much hatred that people came and killed 3,000 of our citizens. I've heard this theory about everything was just fine until we arrived and the stir-up-the-hornet's- nest theory. It just doesn't hold water, as far as I'm concerned. The terrorists attacked us and killed 3,000 of our citizens before we started the freedom agenda in the Middle East.

  George W. Bush

  Water, People, Hatred

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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