Quotes About Suffering

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

Circuses don't treat their 'performers' very well - whipping them, trying to make them terrified.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

Although attracted by the humanities, I had chosen medicine as a career, seduced by the image of the 'man in white' dispensing care and solace to the suffering. But science was lurking around the corner, in the form of an unpaid student assistantship in the laboratory of physiology.

Rising prices of essential commodities has affected the day-to-day life of people of this country.

The principal cause of suffering during humanitarian crises is insufficient respect of applicable rules of international humanitarian law.

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!

I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.

Going away to prison was nothing, I'm just saying, compared to losing my mom.

People just don't know what civilian prisoners of war are.

Our prisons are very bad. When I was in Ikoyi prison, people were dying every day. They were carrying bodies out of the prison every day.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

Consciousness is a disease.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

A lot of people are still suffering from water-borne diseases... We want to create something where we can make life better for everyone.

I could never hate Inter - make that clear to everybody. It's impossible because they were my best years. I did everything for that club, scoring almost a goal a game, suffering, celebrating and experiencing emotions which I'd never felt anywhere else.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

Let's be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.

They'll take everything, even your tears.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.