"Today people are suffering from poverty, but also from lack of love"

-- Pope Francis

#People Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Today Quotes

“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.”

Source : Theodore Parker (1895). “Ten Sermons of Religion and Prayers”
“Peace appeals to the hearts; studies to the brain. Both are needed, indeed indispensable. But equally indispensable is a valid link between brain and heart. And that, in a nutshell, is what peace studies and peace practice are all about.”
“There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.”
“Certainly each side - the 'absolutists' and the 'constructivists' or 'humanists', as I've labelled them - accuses the other of hubris, and lays claim to humility. I see hubris on both sides: a pretence that we could ascend to an objective account of the world, on the one hand, and a pretence that we have the resources to live and act without a sense of there being something to which we answerable, on the other. So both sides are 'villains'.”
“Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.”

Source : "Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson". Book by William McKeen, 2008.
“You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.”

Source : "A son of the road" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.
“In times of upheaval, people wish for nothing more than composure and sincerity.”
“The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage.”

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