Plato Quotes
Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.
Quotes to Explore
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
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It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
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For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.
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The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.
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I'm not the type to pat myself on the back and all that, but somebody has to be lucky, right? When I got to Dallas, I was struggling - sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment. I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation.
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I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.
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I grew up singing in church. I've been doing that since I was 3 years old. Singing was a blessing for me to do.
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Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.
