Human Suffering Quotes - Page 2

• Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet I suspect...they do not care. They don’t want to see what is done in their name. They do not want to look at the rows of flag-draped coffins, the horribly maimed bodies and faces of veterans, or the human suffering in the blighted and deserted former manufacturing centers. It is too upsetting. Government and corporate censorship is therefore welcomed and appreciated.

  Curtis White

  Selfish, Government, Names

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• Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

  Dada Vaswani

  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Suffering

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• Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original way—then because they also have depression, I think they’re more in touch with human suffering.

  Nick Flynn

  Creativity, Thinking, Average

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.140, Faber & Faber

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• Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

  Antonio Porchia

  Adversity, Suffering, Form

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid

  Robert Gibbs

  Stupid, Suffering, Humans

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• To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout human history. To ignore context is the greatest source of catastrophe for every generation of man, and it continutes on in the present time with the same catastrophic consequences. There is no greater lesson that needs to be learned to reduce human suffering and bring ignorance to an end.

  David Hawkins

  Truth, Ignorance, Men

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• All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Spring, Greed, Suffering

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• Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

  Tom Harkin

  Cells, Support, Promise

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• Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the truth-with a capital T. But every country priest who visits his parishioners and has heard a man gasping for breath on his deathbed thinks as I do. He'd try to relieve human suffering before trying to point out its goodness.

  Albert Camus

  Country, Men, Thinking

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

  William Wordsworth

  Hope, Men, Suffering

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.164

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• I didn’t create poverty. This church didn’t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind.

  Peter Akinola

  Issues, Suffering, Church

  "What Archbishop Akinola Said (or Not)". www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk. February 04, 2005.

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• ACT psychology is a psychology of the normal. A lot of the psychologies that are out there are built on the psychology of the abnormal. We have all these syndromal boxes that we can put people in and so forth. The actual evidence on syndromes is not very good. There's no specific biological marker for any of the things that you see talked about in the media. Even things like schizophrenia - there's no specific and sensitive biological markers for these things. There may be some abnormal processes involved, but vastly more of human suffering comes from normal processes that run away from us.

  Steven C. Hayes

  Running, People, Psychology

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.

  Eric Reeves

  Issues, Suffering, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the '80s and '90s, there was some degree of compassion for people with HIV because there was visible human suffering.

  Sean Strub

  Compassion, 80s And 90s, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand, and to the amount of human suffering that is ongoing.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Hands, Years, Suffering

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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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• If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

  Ralph Merkle

  Technology, Suffering, Quality

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Ubiquity Interview, ubiquity.acm.org. July, 2000.

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• If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.

  Dennis Prager

  War, Reading, People

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• So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.

  Francis Collins

  Should Have, Suffering, Disease

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• For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

  Albert Camus

  Suffering, Eternal Happiness, Moments

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

  Arthur Henderson

  War, Civilization, Years

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• Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should be your goal to love every human you encounter. All human suffering that you're aware of and continues without your effort to stop it becomes your crime.

  Louis C. K.

  Love, Inspirational, Kindness

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• After the dead are buried, after the physical pain of grief has become a permanent wound in the soul, then comes the transcendent and common bond of human suffering, and with that comes forgiveness, and with forgiveness comes love.

  Andre Dubus

  Pain, Grief, Soul

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• The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Suffering, Demand

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• Child pornography is taboo. There are really no such things as snuff films. That's a legend. But movies are like pieces of dreams, and we don't need to go into those dreams. Those dreams are beyond. Child pornography - it's horrible. Human suffering is a horrible thing in real life.

  John Carpenter

  Dream, Children, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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