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A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. -- Eric Hoffer
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. -- Robert Frost
Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance. -- Kenneth Clarke
I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance. -- Justin Sane
Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents. -- William J. Clinton
Jokes are grievances. -- Marshall McLuhan
Never repeat old grievances. -- George Bernard Shaw
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. -- Alan Coren
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. -- Aesop
There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. -- Abraham Lincoln
You can't hold on to a grievance and be happy. Time to make a choice! -- Robert Holden
It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness. -- Deepak Chopra
The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. -- Eckhart Tolle
A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people. -- Grace Lee Boggs
One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate. -- Alice Walker
The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud. -- Barton Gellman
People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both. -- Eric Hoffer
Unions can play a valuable role in large organisations where it is difficult to talk to a thousand people. They can negotiate annual pay awards with management, represent grievance cases, and explain and advise on complicated changes in employment or pension law. -- Jim Ratcliffe
Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances. -- Marianne Williamson
Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment. -- Brendan I. Koerner
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword. -- Walter Scott
Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction, uniting conservatives high and low, theocratic and plutocratic, neocon and paleocon, that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer. -- Rick Perlstein
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. -- Andre Maurois
Insurgencies are easy to make and hard to stop. Only a few ingredients need to combine to create an insurgency; like oxygen and fire, they're very common and mix all too often. The recipe is, simply, a legitimate grievance against a state, a state that refuses to compromise, a quorum of angry people, and access to weapons. -- Richard Engel
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence. -- Eckhart Tolle
If you've been running a business for 38 years, you're approaching your 66th birthday, you've never owed a man a penny or done anyone any grievance in your life, and you feel hard done-by and try to protect yourself and your family, but go to prison, well if that's the society we're living in, I'm happy to accept that. -- Sean Quinn
It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Comparisons do ofttime great grievance. -- John Lydgate
grievance does not make for great art. -- Eva Figes
A grievance is a political action. It's not just African-Americans. -- Rush Limbaugh
The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else. -- Edward Abbey
Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance. -- Jay Roach
Every decision I make is a choice between a grievance and a miracle. -- Deepak Chopra
No person with a grievance can be also a person with an attractive personality! -- Napoleon Hill
it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering. -- Harriet Martineau
It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. -- Marilynne Robinson
The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory. -- Gilbert Burnet
Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women. -- Camille Paglia
To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking. -- Clark Kerr
What's a major concern that people, major grievance Americans lodge? It's, we don't make anything in America anymore. -- Kellyanne Conway
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force. -- Robert Kennedy
To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's. -- Toni Morrison
If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined. -- David Horowitz
In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance. -- Lazare Carnot
To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one's scapegoats. -- Jacques Barzun
As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance. -- Beverley Nichols
a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance. -- Elsie de Wolfe
Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him. -- Anthony Trollope
The grievance industry always seeks to blame other people while never finding a solution. That's my problem with it, when solutions are there to be had. -- Rush Limbaugh
Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action. -- Michael Parenti
It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance. -- Jane Swisshelm
No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance. -- Thomas Paine
Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged. -- Charles Dickens
Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. -- Evita Peron
What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing. -- Richard Sibbes
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance. -- Eric Hoffer
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion. -- Laozi
The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon another, in whatever country that may be done. -- Bayley
Round and round will Americans be compelled to ride on a mindless, manufactured, racial carousel ... for without it, the edifice of an industry built upon grievance and excuse-making is destined to collapse. -- Ilana Mercer
A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness -- incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic. -- Fran Lebowitz
I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But it is one of the most effective under certain conditions. -- William Kunstler
An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to appreciate this. Then he has a deep sense of grievance . . . -- Stephen Spender
Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor. -- John F. Kennedy

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