Distress Quotes - Page 7

• If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause occurring of a diminished demand for commodities, this scantiness of capital would certainly occasion great inconvenience to consumers, and great distress among the working classes; but it would be attended with great advantages to the remaining capitalists.

  Thomas Malthus

  Country, Class, Causes

  "Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application". Book by Thomas Malthus, Book II, Chapter I, "On The Progress of Wealth", Section X, p. 414, 1836.

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• To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface.

  Thomas Malthus

  Law, People, Evil

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.40, eKitap Projesi

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• It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Suffering, Records, Family Bible

  Alice Morse Earle (2012). “Child Life in Colonial Times”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.

  Anthony Daniels

  Compassion, Attention, May

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• The cry of distress lays hold of our Lord's omnipotence. It is as easy for God to supply thy greatest as thy smallest wants, even as it was within His power to form a system or an atom, to create a blazing sun as to kindle the fire-fly's lamp.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Fire, Omnipotence, Atoms

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 273, 1895.

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• Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.

  Plotinus

  Two, Soul, Desire

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.15, Delphi Classics

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• Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.

  David Hume

  Ocean, Gay, Thinking

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.4068, Delphi Classics

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• The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.

  Herbert Spencer

  Strong, Poverty, Misery

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.73, VM eBooks

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• Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less; Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Pain, Rain, Heaven

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2012). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.173, Courier Corporation

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• There is again a living prophet on the earth speaking in the name of the Lord. And how we need such guidance! Our times are turbulent and difficult. We see wars internationally and distress domestically. Neighbors all around us face personal heartaches and family sorrows. Legions know fear and troubles of a hundred kinds.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  War, Names, Heartache

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• The person... in the grip of an old distress says things that are not pertinent, does things that don't work, fails to cope with the situation, and endures terrible feelings that have nothing to do with the present.

  Harvey Jackins

  Feelings, Doe, Failing

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• The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

  James A. Garfield

  Hard Times, Pathways, Panic

  US Congressional Record, 43rd Congress, 2nd session, June 22, 1874.

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• Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

  Mencius

  Spring, Fall, Men

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• In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

  Jonathan Swift

  Adversity, Ease, Firsts

  'Verses on the Death of Dr Swift' (1731) l. 7

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• When you are in something that you're proud of and it's funny and it's a good night out and all of those things, there's nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.

  Bill Nighy

  Good Night, Alarms, Proud

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• First, it must be a pleasure to study the human body the most miraculous masterpiece of nature and to learn about the smallest vessel and the smallest fiber. But second and most important, the medical profession gives the opportunity to alleviate the troubles of the body, to ease the pain, to console a person who is in distress, and to lighten the hour of death of many a sufferer.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Pain, Science, Opportunity

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• Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Thinking, Kind, Should

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• When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Fellow Man, Fellows

  "Hercules Furens". 463, 1st century.

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• I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.

  Dick Cavett

  Loss, Losing, Problem

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.77, Macmillan

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• 'The long-suffering man abounds in understanding' (Prov. 14:29), because he endures everything to the end and, while awaiting that end, patiently bears his distress. The end, as St. Paul says, is everlasting life (cf. Rom. 6:22). 'And this is eternal life, that they might know You the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent' (Jn. 17:3).

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people; nurture the belief that they can do things.

  George Papandreou

  Mother, Father, People

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• If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

  James Nachtwey

  Grief, Moving, People

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• All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, Revenge, Retribution

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• It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.

  Ma Jian

  Writing, Important, Able

  "Exiled author Ma Jian banned from visiting China" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.

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• Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

  Horace Mann

  Heart, Hands, Insanity

  Horace Mann (1867). “Lectures and Annual Reports on Education”, p.325

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