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When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises.
Oscar Romero
When the church hears the lament of those suffering injustice, it must openly decry the systems that engender and maintain their anguish.
2.
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery
Karl Marx
There must be something fundamentally flawed in the very basis of a social system which augments its affluence without abating its wretchedness.
3.
To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.
Gregor Mendel
To exist without experiencing any humiliation or admiration would undoubtedly be a wretched existence.
4.
Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.
Prince
Achievement can also bring suffering. The key is not to be shocked when you find out it doesn't give you all the joy and solutions you expected it would.
5.
Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
6.
Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.
Steve Harvey
At times, your most significant anguish can lead to your greatest reward.
7.
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.
Jeremy Bentham
Generate all the joy you can; abolish all the suffering you can.
8.
People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty
Virginia Satir
Individuals opt for the assurance of wretchedness rather than the distress of ambiguity.
9.
Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.
Rajneesh
Life is an open slate; it can be whatever you choose to make it. You can opt for sorrow or joy. This autonomy is your honor.
10.
The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.
S. N. Goenka
11.
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
Winston Churchill
12.
Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.
John Bowlby
14.
One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.
Parker J. Palmer
15.
While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
Groucho Marx
16.
You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.
Norman Borlaug
17.
Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.
Toni Morrison
18.
There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
Gilles Deleuze
19.
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
Blaise Pascal
20.
I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.
Ayrton Senna
22.
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
Sharon Salzberg
23.
As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.
Jonathan Aitken
24.
If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.
Arthur Schopenhauer
25.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Thomas Carlyle
26.
Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.
Jeanette Winterson
27.
In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
Ahmed Ben Bella
28.
What else is there for the rich to do,
If not to relieve the poor of their misery?
Pancho Villa
29.
Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
Markus Zusak
30.
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
David Harvey
31.
You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days.
Jimmy Hoffa
33.
Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life. It is force used to pile on more misery.
Prentice Mulford
34.
He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.
Sheldon B. Kopp
35.
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
Princess Diana
36.
Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.
Dalai Lama
37.
Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.
Sigmund Freud
38.
You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.
Gordon Parks
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Free grace will fix those whom free will shook down into a gulf of misery.
Thomas Boston
40.
Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.
George Osborne
41.
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
T. E. Lawrence
42.
Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
Daniel Kahneman
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I saw the abyss of my misery; whatever there is of good in me is Yours, O Lord. But because I am so small and wretched, I have a right to count on Your boundless mercy.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
44.
Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.
Evo Morales
45.
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.
Bertrand Russell
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The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.
Swami Vivekananda
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Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.
Bryant H. McGill
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
Boethius