Quotes About Suffering

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world.

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.

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.

Everyone suffers. Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. It falls on both the rich and the poor too. Leftist materialists imagine suffering to be a factor of economic circumstance.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

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

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

You can't breathe for sheer revulsion when you keep finding the bodies of women with bamboo poles thrust up their vaginas. Even old women over 70 are constantly being raped.

I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.

Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.

Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.

To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.

Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .

No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect . . . if it be met with patience.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.

Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much; but they also suffer much.

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.