#suffering

The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#iraqi people #just #people #saddam #still

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering? ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#convictions #suffering #worth

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? ↗

— George Sand

#adores #believed #blush #captured #deliberately

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#ends #endured #evil #i #i believe

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime. ↗

— George Saunders

#beauty #believe #capitalism #eradicate #even

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#sight #spare #suffering #think #which

Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#culture #each #had #killing #lack

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#called #cringe #defiance #evil #evils

Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#apart #being #choices #democracy #excuses

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#focus #focused #horribly #impossible #lot