Human Suffering Quotes - Page 5

• 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 marginalised.

  Nelson Mandela

  Our World, Hands, Suffering

  Nelson Mandela's Speech at his Birthday dinner in Hyde Park, London, United Kingdom, db.nelsonmandela.org. June 25, 2008.

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• A Resource-Based Economy is in the application of the methods of science with human concern and environmental concern. If we used the scientific method throughout the world, the probability of war drops to zero. The probability of human suffering disappears. Deprivation, poverty, crime - all those things tend to disappear because there's no basis. I'm strictly concerned with the environment that people are raised in and if that environment is altered, so will behaviors be altered.

  Jacque Fresco

  Zero, War, People

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• 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

  Jealousy, War, Anger

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• Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

  Epicurus

  Suffering, Doe, Philosopher

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• 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

  People, Black, Suffering

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• ...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war and human suffering]. I think that's more terrifying than the occasional Hitler ...or other that crop up - these people would not able to operate were it not for this apathy and equanimity - and therefore I think that it is in some sense the sane and reasonable and tolerant people who should share a very serious burden of guilt, that they very easily throw on the shoulders of others who seem more extreme and more violent.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, People

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• 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 havent read them.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Book, Thinking, Issues

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• Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

  Richard Levins

  Suffering, Scholarship, Indifferent

  Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins (2007). “Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society”, p.369, NYU Press

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