“Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth”
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Sad Quotes — page 28 of 475
“In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.”
“Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.”
“I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.”
“I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.”
“I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at the world. There is decline in morals, ideals, manners, respect, truthfulness: just about everything, in fact.”
“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.”
“Love is nothing but a pain in the ass”
“We probaly in hell already, our dumb asses not knowin, everybody kissin ass to go to heaven aint goin.”
“And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.”
“India had barely become independent, in 1947, when Pakistan invaded Kashmir, which at the time was ruled by a maharajah. The maharajah fled, and the people of Kashmir, led by Sheikh Abdullah, asked for Indian help. Lord [Louis] Mountbatten, who was still governor general, replied that he wouldn't be able to supply aid to Kashmir unless Pakistan declared war, and he didn't seem bothered by the fact that the Pakistanis were slaughtering the population.”
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
“Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears. When they finish, they feel better. But to those without hope, whose anguish is basic and permanent, no good comes from crying. Nothing changes for them. They usually know this, but still can’t help crying.”
“Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”
“Cruelty and fear shake hands together.”
“Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it”
“No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?”
“The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new state. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their numbers increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?”
“People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.”