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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For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.
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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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Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are the same in being humans, and we all uniquely have the thought of 'I' and we're all the same in wanting happiness and in wanting to avoid suffering.
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I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.
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Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.
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In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
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Success, and even life itself, wouldn't be worth anything if I didn't have my wife and children by my side. They mean everything to me.
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Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.
