War is a tragedy. It’s not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody’s a victim, from the one who’s suffering pain to the person inflicting it. – Edgar Ramirez
There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good. – Dennis Prager
Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought. – Mary Lyon
The things that drive me crazy are coming from this place of people suffering because of people polluting into rivers or whatever. It’s not simply just about systems; it’s an emotional reaction to seeing animals or people suffering. – Mike White
I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed. – Marlene Dumas
In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering. – Peter Singer
I don’t think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I’m concerned about are at the top of other people’s agendas – not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change. – Patti Smith
But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago. – Merton Miller
Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect. – Miriam Defensor-Santiago
The role of a clown and a physician are the same – it’s to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering. – Patch Adams
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods. – Paul Dirac
It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive. – Judy Collins
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help. – Margaret Cavendish
All the arguments to prove man’s superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. – Peter Singer
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. – Jane Austen
All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord. – James E. Faust
The majority people in this country are suffering because of our membership of the E.U. – Michael Gove
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
Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering hope for millions of Americans suffering from debilitating diseases. – Jim Ramstad
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. – Lydia M. Child
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. – Katherine Anne Porter
After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence? – Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
In human rights and peacemaking, it’s really about having a solid concrete goal – the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world – and then doing what is required to get that goal achieved. – John Prendergast
God steps into the suffering with us, and He takes it on himself, and He walks through it with us, and He uses it to create something in you that is unstoppable. – Kirk Cameron
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering. – Leon Kass
I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation. – Muhammad Yunus
When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you. – Lee Strobel
