Burden Quotes

• I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Business
  • Death
  • Repeating

• Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Burden
  • Memorable

• Clearly people should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness! But I think that for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy. We're doing a job that is not a celebrity job or an entertainment or fashion job.... In a professional setting, treat us as professionals.... And it takes a lot of time. I've often laughed with my male colleagues, like, "What did you do? You took a shower, you combed your hair, you put your clothes on. I couldn't do that."

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Women
  • Public Eye

• At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.

  

  Mort Walker
  • Said
  • Cartoon
  • Tables

• Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

  

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
  • Patience
  • Burden
  • Complains

• The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different from us; at the same time he must keep himself at that remove from us which assures our painlessly being able to confirm this belief about him. Put differently, he is advised to reciprocate naturally with an acceptance of himself and us, an acceptance of him that we have not quite extended to him in the first place. A PHANTOM ACCEPTANCE is thus allowed to provide the base for a PHANTOM NORMALCY.

  

  Erving Goffman
  • Different
  • Belief
  • Individual

• Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Man
  • Burden
  • Assist

• I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of "I want to tell the people."

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • People
  • Saws
  • Nina

• Children are not a burden.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Children
  • Burden

• She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their new-born child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Outgrows

• Redemption came as a wave of relief, but then it followed with a burden.

  

  Building 429
  • Burden
  • Relief
  • Redemption

• The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

  

  John Milton
  • World
  • Burden
  • Superstition

• Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

  

  John Milton
  • Blame
  • Strive
  • Contend

• This burden is going to be a great one. One in four of these students have dependent children and more than 75 percent are first-generation students.

  

  Lloyd Doggett
  • Great
  • Children
  • Students

• Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Burden
  • Tyranny
  • Revolutions

• There is no burden of the spirit but is lightened by kneeling under it. Little by little, the bitterest feelings are sweetened by the mention of them in prayer. And agony itself stops swelling, if we can only cry sincerely, "My God, my God!"

  

  William Mountford
  • Feelings
  • Spirit
  • Praying

• American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.

  

  Barack Obama
  • American
  • Alone
  • Leadership

• The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Dies
  • Burden
  • Old Woman

• Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

  

  Gerda Weissmann Klein
  • Survival
  • Privilege
  • Burden

• Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Live
  • Helping
  • Burden

• Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.

  

  Peter George Peterson
  • Political
  • Cutting
  • Taxes

• We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Time
  • Expectations

• I don't see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer.

  

  George Deukmejian
  • Needs
  • Burden
  • Taxpayers

• Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.

  

  Whitney M. Young
  • Brother
  • Injustice
  • Exists

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