Sick World Quotes

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Recovery, Tired, Health

"'I Question America' — Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Famous Speech 50 Years Ago" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

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I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become One Circle again.

Crazy Horse

Native American, Color, Circles

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Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there.

Clive Stafford Smith

Death Penalty, Calm, Sick

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The Art of Peace is medicine for a sick world. There is evil and disorder in the world, because people have forgotten that all things emanate from one source. Return to that source and leave behind all self-centered thoughts, petty desires, and anger. Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

Morihei Ueshiba

Art, Peace, Self

Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

Jean Toomer

Art, Get Well, Firsts

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Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.

Crazy Horse

Native American, Blessing, Circles

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When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love.

Peace Pilgrim

Love, Medicine, Needs

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.12, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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In a sick world even the hale are sick.

Olaf Stapledon

Sick, World, Hale

Olaf Stapledon (2015). “Star Maker”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays.

Bill Janklow

Couple, Taken, Years

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I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

Tracy Kidder

Book, Writing, People

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Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.

George Matthew Adams

Love, Christmas, Baby

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Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedism, extermination and tyranny. All this would have been impossible if, like Buddhism, it had looked only for peace and the liberation of souls. It looked beyond; it dreamt of infinite blisses and crowns it should be crowned with before an electrified universe and an applauding God... Buddhism had tried to quiet a sick world with anesthetics; Christianity sought to purge it with fire.

George Santayana

War, Ambition, Buddhism

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The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am,’ to me before I gave him ID.” “It’s a sick world, Eve.” He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. “A sick, sad world.

Nora Roberts

Hands, Afternoon, Said

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