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Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering. -- Aleksander Kwasniewski
The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering. -- Ralph Merkle
The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian. -- Daniel D. Palmer
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering. -- Harold Bloom
Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth. -- Tom Lantos
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. -- Clara Barton
If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering. -- Ralph Merkle
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. -- Jose Marti
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 catastrophic human experience by the old Japan. -- Shigeru Yoshida
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere. -- Elie Wiesel
We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering. -- Jeremy Gilley
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering. -- Epicurus
The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain. -- Epicurus
The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering. -- Nick Harkaway
Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success. -- Tom Harkin
The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist. -- Lynsey Addario
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things. -- Susan George
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. -- Andrea Dworkin
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more. -- Margaret Atwood
So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not. -- Francis Collins
But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them. -- Alexander McCall Smith
In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering. -- Ernest Lawrence
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalized. -- Nelson Mandela
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit. -- Pope John Paul II
In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world - and then doing what is required to get that goal achieved. -- John Prendergast
How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering. -- Julius Gordon
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive. -- Arthur Henderson
I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin. -- Erwin McManus
People say that the monetary system produces incentive. This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy, anger, crime, war, poverty, tremendous scarcity, and unnecessary human suffering. You have to look at the entire picture. -- Jacque Fresco
If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering. -- Dennis Prager
A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice. -- Wole Soyinka
Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should be your goal to love every human you encounter. All human suffering that you're aware of and continues without your effort to stop it becomes your crime. -- Louis C. K.
It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous. -- John Negroponte
It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the forced removal of 1838-1839. Although we know about the terrible human suffering of our native people and the members of other tribes during the removal, we rarely hear of those black people who also suffered. -- Wilma Mankiller
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue. -- Dada Vaswani
To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Nothing eases suffering like human touch. -- Bobby Fischer
I love the majesty of human suffering. -- Alfred de Vigny
All human suffering concerns each human being -- Vaclav Havel
Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it? -- Herta Muller
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance...... -- John Calvin
It is by suffering that human beings become angels. -- Victor Hugo
Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral. -- Richard Levins
The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering. -- Maile Meloy
Our top priority is to relieve suffering of human beings. -- Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human. -- Janet Fitch
Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering. -- Stefan Molyneux
You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering... -- Zana Briski
Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head. -- Pankaj Mishra
I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering. -- Byron Katie
Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc. -- Rigoberto Gonzalez
Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form. -- Mark Frost
The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling. -- Fred Hollows
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. -- Elie Wiesel
Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. -- Oswald Chambers
It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested. -- Sathya Sai Baba
The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man. -- James G. Frazer
Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness. -- Bill Hybels
What is the greatest deficiency among human Chrsitians? They have an inadequate view of human suffering. -- Helmut Thielicke
To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering. -- Ingrid Newkirk
I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering. -- Marianne Williamson
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering -- Albert Camus
A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...] -- Gary Shteyngart
To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human. -- Willie D
Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents. -- Michel de Montaigne
Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. -- Hermann Hesse
By working to alleviate the suffering of animals you are working at the cause level of human suffering. -- Sharon Gannon
He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human. -- Saadi
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. -- Antonio Porchia
Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering. -- Abraham Maslow
Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights. -- Donald Trump
As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave. -- Mike Tyson
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin. -- Boethius
You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human. -- Saadi
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society. -- John Galsworthy
It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. -- Victor Hugo
Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it. -- Ray Kurzweil
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness -- Charles R. Swindoll
A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. -- James Russell Lowell
Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script. -- Johnny Rich
Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us. -- Elie Wiesel
Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread. -- Michael Pollan
Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone. -- William Wordsworth
There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan. -- Eric Reeves
It is human nature to seek revenge in the face of relentless suffering. You can't expect an unhealthy person to think logically. -- Izzeldin Abuelaish
I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with. -- Rigoberto Gonzalez
It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid -- Robert Gibbs
A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf, -- Albert Sabin
In the '80s and '90s, there was some degree of compassion for people with HIV because there was visible human suffering. -- Sean Strub
Feminist art... will take the great human themes â?? love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself â?? and render them fully human. -- Andrea Dworkin
Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical and wrong. -- Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive. -- Eknath Easwaran
As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology. -- Jennifer Stone
Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer. -- Eckhart Tolle
How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring? -- Tom Robbins
Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering. -- Ron Suskind
Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering. -- Richard Dawkins
Ich glaube sogar, durch Leidensk aÂ« mpfe k oÂ« nnten dieTiere zu Menschen werden. I believe that by suffering even animals could be made human. -- Heinrich Heine
There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize. -- Edwidge Danticat
You develop a kind of admiration for criminal genius and ruthless efficiency, and you forget that the criminal empire is built on human pain and suffering. -- Jake Adelstein
All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow. -- Velupillai Prabhakaran
The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine. -- Michael Sandel
the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows. -- Agnes Sligh Turnbull
To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped. -- Bill Ayers
"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge." -- Anwar Sadat
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness. -- Honore de Balzac
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size' of human suffering is absolutely relative". -- Viktor E. Frankl
Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt. -- Nathaniel Branden
human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight. -- Margaret Mead
Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits -- Jared Diamond
God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace. -- Abraham Verghese
I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience. -- Mother Teresa

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