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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.

Quotes by Tariq Ali

The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).

Quotes by Tariq Ramadan

My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in...

Quotes by Tara Brach

Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.

Quotes by Sylvia Earle

Those suffering from spondylitis and arthiritis are not advised to perform certain asanas.

Quotes by Sushma Swaraj

More often writing soliloquies of suffering and consolation than collective songs like the dirge, elegists have discovered that lyric sequences can provide a powerful means of addressing the tensions between grief's inchoate emotion and social rituals of mourning.

Quotes by Susan Stewart

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

Quotes by Susan George

I have seen pain. I can feel the pain of those who undergo it. Pain gets transferred to those who see someone suffering.

Quotes by Suresh Gopi

I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner's relationship...

Quotes by Sue Miller

You get annoyed about things in real life, and then the tragic thing is that while you are moaning on the awful injustice and suffering of something, something grimly comic will then strike you about it, like a parasite feeding...

Quotes by Stewart Lee

I wouldn't have really committed myself to any kind of spiritual lifestyle, I don't think, if I had not endured great suffering. I think that's the case with a lot of people.

Quotes by Steve-O

When we started making 'Selma,' the Black Lives Matter movement didn't exist. The parallels between Martin Luther King staging these marches, suffering police brutality... we weren't even aware when making the film that these sorts of things would start to...

Quotes by Stephan James

For me, motivation is easy. I enjoy what I'm doing, and I'm lucky to play tennis. I enjoy the suffering. It's something quite natural for me to go on the court and suffer, and to go in the gym and...

Quotes by Stan Wawrinka

Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.

Quotes by Stafford Cripps

You couldn't enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians managed to do. India was too big. Seeing the suffering people was terrible, but I think I was more distraught at the needless cruelty to...

Quotes by Spike Milligan

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

Quotes by Sophie Marceau

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something...

Quotes by Simone Weil

We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.

Quotes by Silvia Cartwright

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Quotes by Sigmund Freud

We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that...

Quotes by Shigeru Yoshida

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about tattoos honoring people suffering from hunger?
Yes, one quote reads, "When I took my shirt off against Caen, everybody asked what these new tattoos were. I had 15 removable tattoos on my body; they are the names of real people who are suffering from hunger in the world."
Is there a quote about turning suffering into something meaningful?
Yes, one quote reads, "To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic."
Is there a quote about a great artist turning pain to advantage?
Yes, one quote reads, "The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains."
Is there a quote about redeeming suffering by giving it purpose?
Yes, one quote reads, "Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it."
Where can I find more quotes about life's struggles?
See the Life or More collections.

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