Great Tragedy Quotes - Page 2

• Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Tragedy, Socialism, Century

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• To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and decent people and a lot of good political points [that have] come from the Republican Party in the post-war period, but it has been hijacked by these fundamentalist wackos.

  Alec Baldwin

  Real, War, Party

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a great tragedy when those who are afflicted with adversity or a source of hopelessness turn their backs on prayer. To their peril, they ignore that spiritual lifeline just at the time when their attention to it most needs to be intensified. By so doing they cut themselves of from revelation and inspiration and deprive themselves of hearing the Lord's voice. They give up the prospect of gaining the very hope and comfort for which their hearts yearn.

  David S. Baxter

  Spiritual, Prayer, Giving Up

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• The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

  Michelangelo

  Sight, People, Goal

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• Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.

  Tony Snow

  Risk, Tragedy, Liberty

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• The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Atheist, Tragedy, World

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• There is no political will for peace in the Israeli government. They're not serious about political peace because they're still building settlements and demolishing Palestinian homes. That is a great tragedy.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Home, Government, Political Will

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Ignorance, Rights

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Practice, Bridges

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.34, Beacon Press

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• It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet.

  Ann Druyan

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Tragedy

  "Ann Druyan Talks About Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe . . . and Carl Sagan". Skeptical Inquirer Interview, Volume 27.6, www.csicop.org. November / December 2003.

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• One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Simple, People, Tragedy

  "God, science, and delusion". "Free Inquiry" Interview with Matt Cherry, March 22, 1999.

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• Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

  Johnny Ball

  Birthday, Effort, Tragedy

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• What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

  George R. R. Martin

  Brother, Memories, Son

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.553, Bantam

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• The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth - that we have culture.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Art, Bad Ass

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". Converge Magazine, May 21, 2009.

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• Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death - the seas bear only commerce - men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Beach, Lying, War

  Radio Broadcast to the Nation Following the USS Missouri Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

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• It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mother, Daughter, Children

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before.

  Lester R. Brown

  Oil, Car, Effort

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• If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

  Bobby Fischer

  Winning, Games, Tragedy

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• I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison.

  Lucy Grealy

  Pain, Cancer, Years

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• It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.

  Jim Gerlach

  Country, Tragedy, Spirit

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• It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

  James Bovard

  Government, Tragedy, Knows

  Interview with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

  Antonio Guterres

  Suffering, Tragedy, Humanitarian

  "Deborah Amos on Syria’s Refugee Crisis". "Moyers & Company" with Phil Donahue, billmoyers.com. September 6, 2013.

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• Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Loss, Thinking, People

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• The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

  Leon Bloy

  Real, Sadness, Tragedy

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• This is... one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration. The more successful they’ve been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we’re in danger... it’s almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us.

  Newt Gingrich

  Successful, Guy, Tragedy

  "Holy Terror! Newt Gingrich Joked About ‘Allow(ing) An Attack To Get Through’" by Tommy Christopher, www.mediaite.com. January 24, 2012.

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