#suffering

It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous. ↗

— John Negroponte

#cambodia #communist #conditions #enormous #even

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. ↗

— Albert Pike

#all things #born #bound #brotherhood #constitutes

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. ↗

— Plato

#any #because #censured #doing #fear

The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans? ↗

— David Plouffe

#american people #construction #continue #create #economy

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#due #love #own #physicians #say

We don't have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation - these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#conditions #country #inflation #life #like

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#soul #stop #suffering #teaches #unless

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#death #only #same #suffering

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#characters #emerged #massive #most #out

If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

#consequences #firmly #gift #going #i