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Quotes About Afflict

But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
There is a widespread belief that Ebola and other viral hemorrhagic fevers cause profuse and irreversible bleeding in the humans they afflict. This is only rarely the case. So why has this belief taken hold?
~ Paul Farmer
This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property fordoes itself And leads the will to desperate undertakings As oft as any passion under heaven That does afflict our natures.
~ William Shakespeare
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
~ Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
I come to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.
~ Lucille Clifton
We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.
~ Martin Buber
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
~ Martin Luther
We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.
~ Martin Buber