#suffering

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

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It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

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Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought. ↗

— Mary Lyon

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I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

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I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. ↗

— Andre Malraux

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Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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Suffering is one of life's great teachers. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities. ↗

— Michael McCaul

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