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I believe in people, especially suffering people. -- Pat Buckley
The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans. -- Salman Rushdie
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. -- Marcus Garvey
The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam. -- Muqtada al Sadr
I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering. -- Kevin Sorbo
Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people. -- George C. Wallace
May I suggest that people in many African countries could be suffering from donation fatigue? -- Nicky Oppenheimer
As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole. -- Hamid Karzai
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt. -- Eric Hoffer
I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could. -- Peter Singer
Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you. -- Sophie Marceau
The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here. -- Perry Christie
Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country? -- Andrew Greeley
I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are. -- Ziggy Marley
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat. -- Ralph Fiennes
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. -- Nhat Hanh
Any time there is 'un-forgiveness' between people who love each other, there is suffering. Any time people face challenges that they really don't understand... there is suffering. -- Iyanla Vanzant
When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows. -- Yoko Ono
You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
The things that drive me crazy are coming from this place of people suffering because of people polluting into rivers or whatever. It's not simply just about systems; it's an emotional reaction to seeing animals or people suffering. -- Mike White
People invent gods to explain their suffering. -- Mason Cooley
A lot of people are suffering in America. -- Nina Turner
people are strong despite suffering, not because of it. -- Sonia Johnson
All people believe their suffering is greater than others. -- Erica Jong
It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering -- Cornel West
I am deeply saddened by the suffering of the Iraqi people. -- Moshe Katsav
No individual or people can achieve anything without industry suffering, and sacrifice. -- Fatima Jinnah
Today people are suffering from poverty, but also from lack of love -- Pope Francis
War demands sacrifice of the people. It gives only suffering in return. -- Frederic C. Howe
People are hurting. People are suffering. But you can not get everywhere. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery. -- Spencer W. Kimball
I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself. -- Princess Diana
As long as there are people suffering, how can I not be happy? -- Esther Hicks
...having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear. -- David Foster Wallace
God points to the peaceful attitude of suffering people to teach others about Himself. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness. -- Vernon Howard
A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity. -- Patrick Califia
Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history. -- John Brown Gordon
We're still benefiting from the sacrifices of people long dead, but we're also suffering from their errors. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Some people in England only have their wheelie bins collected once a fortnight. Their suffering is unimaginable. -- Russell Howard
However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred. -- Dorothy Rowe
People never remeber happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering. -- Edward St Aubyn
People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens. -- Dan Barker
On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought. -- Tina Turner
Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel. -- Dan Lipinski
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The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living. -- Leonard Cohen
We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people. -- Charles Lenox Remond
The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles. -- E. L. Doctorow
Suffering of the people strengthens their will and determination to struggle as to live in dignity and freedom. -- Dr. Nabil Kukali
People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations. -- Bessie Head
Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain. -- Emil Dorian
We cannot deny that people are suffering, and they are making that suffering known at the ballot box. -- Nina Turner
People discover that by helping others, even when they themselves are suffering, they end up improving their own lives. -- Arianna Huffington
Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty. -- Woody Allen
Unless you are oblivious to your own suffering, you have no right to be oblivious to other people's suffering. -- Jaggi Vasudev
People accept certain challenges, not because they enjoy suffering, but because they know the hard work their dreams demand. -- Luimar Silva
I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird. -- Richard Misrach
We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. -- Angelina Jolie
I'd like to focus on my life on creating new medicines for people who are suffering from rare disease. -- Martin Shkreli
Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation. -- Oscar Wilde
The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice. -- Mariel Hemingway
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination. -- Nelson Mandela
Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you. -- Nhat Hanh
If we knew what people had been through, their sorrow and suffering, we would not be so quick to judge. -- Nicky Gumbel
When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it. -- Frank R. Wolf
People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul -- Jeannette Walls
Some of the most amazing people in the world were not perfect; they were scarred by suffering, hardships, losses and imperfections. -- Bryant McGill
Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head. -- Giles Foden
If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group. -- Salma Hayek
I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people. -- Elfriede Jelinek
Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases. -- Rose George
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction -- Dalai Lama
You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering. -- Christina Romer
Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people. -- Paul Bloom
You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. -- Portia de Rossi
The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust. -- Bob Beauprez
People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there's room. -- Steve Toltz
Economic markets are collapsing. People all over the world are suffering and people afraid. What happens when peep are afraid? They become intolerant. -- Madonna Ciccone
... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering. -- Chad Harbach
society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people. -- Geraldine Jewsbury
A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering. -- Anderson Cooper
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety. -- John Lubbock
If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering. -- Princess Diana
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. -- Nhat Hanh
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. -- Leo Tolstoy
In the '80s and '90s, there was some degree of compassion for people with HIV because there was visible human suffering. -- Sean Strub
I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance. -- Hugh Masekela
The church still meets people at the transition points. Marriages break down. Children commit suicide and leave helpless parents. Death and suffering are everywhere. -- Ravi Zacharias
I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer. -- Elie Wiesel
The American obliviousness towards the suffering of Palestinians refugees plays a major part in radicalizing people. And we are fanning the flames of puritanism. -- Khaled Abou El Fadl
Thousands upon thousands of people across America and many more across the globe are suffering at the hands of the oil and gas industry. -- Josh Fox
Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life. -- Stephen Colbert
The suffering of our people is greater than our differences. We are not yet free at last, so there is work to be done. -- Louis Farrakhan
We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering at once. -- Julian Beck
It's the comedies and thrillers that are successful. People love horror, but in thrillers. Once you speak of pain and suffering it's a different matter. -- Philippe Claudel
It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive. -- Eckhart Tolle
It is a remarkable thing that some of the most optimistic and enthusiastic people you will meet are those who have been through intense suffering. -- Warren W. Wiersbe
The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer. -- Thomas Merton
The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn to the person who is making sense of things. -- Eugene Kennedy
People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind. -- Joy Kogawa
In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the title of 'suffering humanity -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other. -- Russell Simmons
I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer's is not the person they knew. I wonder to myself - Who are they then? -- Bob DeMarco
In the past, Japan through its colonial rule and aggression caused tremendous damage and suffering for the people of many countries, particularly those of Asian nations. -- Junichiro Koizumi
For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying? -- Katherine Boo
People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for. -- Laurie Anderson
Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art. -- Matt Lucas
Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people to act on them. -- Dale Jamieson
Germany is a nation that created an enormous amount of suffering on the planet. The German people also themselves have suffered, because it always goes together. -- Eckhart Tolle
Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action -- Gabrielle Roth
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. -- Alice Walker
No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering. -- Malcolm X
Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty. -- Angelina Jolie
The fossil-fuel-based development model has not benefitted all people and those who have benefitted least are now suffering great harm in the face of climate change. -- Mary Robinson
There are two types of people in this world: Those who make it their life's work to rid themselves of all pain and suffering... and Artists. -- Gregor Collins
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

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