Grievance Quotes - Page 5

• Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

  Jay Roach

  Revenge, War, Modern

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

  Harriet Martineau

  Suffering, Causes, Illness

  Harriet Martineau (1845). “Life in the Sick-room: Essays”, p.195

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• grievance does not make for great art.

  Eva Figes

  Art, Doe, Great Art

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• Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

  Robert Kennedy

  Thinking, Punishment, Despair

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”

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• The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Land, Lightning

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• Liberalism is a series of grievances in addition to everything else that it is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Liberalism, Series

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

  C. S. Lewis

  Passion, Self, Envy

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Respect, Men, Individual

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• Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly, like slumping hitters, studying the film of their old whiffs.

  Michael Chabon

  Tuesday, Novelists, Reptiles

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• The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the ordinary people - of England needed a spokesman in their dealings with the King, someone who would voice their grievances and present their petitions. This was by no means a safe or easy thing to do at that time, and potential spokesman generally had to be pressured into accepting the responsibility.

  John Allen Fraser

  Kings, Mean, Responsibility

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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• America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone.

  George Will

  Baseball, Spring, Florida

  "Reform in Baseball as In Life" by George Will, www.sfgate.com. April 2, 2001.

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• The destruction of the environment, its improper or selfish use, and the violent hoarding of the Earth's resources cause grievances, conflicts and wars, precisely because they are the consequences of an inhumane concept of development.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Selfish, War, Environmental

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• And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.

  William Blackstone

  Kings, Rights, Self

  William Blackstone (2016). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: Of the Rights of People”, p.97, Oxford University Press

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• If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.

  Agnes Repplier

  Loss, Ill Health, Anxiety

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Comfort, Bears

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• There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  People, Judgement, Would Be

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (1983). “Teach only love: the seven principles of attitudinal healing”

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• Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Political, Desire, Deeds

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.152, Vintage

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• 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

  Doctors, Self, People

  "Ruminator" Magazine, August/September 2005.

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• A great deal of what passes by the name of patriotism in these days consists of the merest bigotry and narrow-mindedness; exhibiting itself in national prejudice, national conceit, and national hatred. It does not show itself in deeds, but in boastings--in howlings, gesticulations, and shrieking helplessly for help--in flying flags and singing songs--and in perpetual grinding at the hurdy-gurdy of long-dead grievances and long-remedied wrongs. To be infested by such a patriotism as this is perhaps among the greatest curses that can befall any country.

  Samuel Smiles

  Country, Song, Names

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.27

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• Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Long, Hatred, Ruins

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.19, Macmillan

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• Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.

  John Lydgate

  Comparison

  "Bochas", Book III, Chapter VIII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 125-27, 1922.

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• If the marriage needs help, the answer almost always is have more fun. Drop your list of grievances and go ride a roller coaster.

  Garrison Keillor

  Inspirational, Fun, Needs

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• We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.

  Gordon Livingston

  Letting Go, Art, Past

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• When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. Think and talk only about the good things that add to your enjoyment of your work and life. If you don't talk about your grievances, you'll be delighted to find them disappearing quickly.

  Thomas Dreier

  Life, Hurt, Thinking

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• Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. 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. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

  Evita Peron

  Men, Generosity, Doe

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