The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people.
For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.
Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.
No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and torment in the company of the demons. Do not, therefore, adorn the church and ignore your afflicted brother, for he is the most precious temple of all.
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.
From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth.
It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that minds afflicted by calamity and the contempt of mankind cheerfully listen to the divine promise of future happiness; while, on the contrary, the fortunate are satisfied with the possession of this world; and the wise abuse in doubt and dispute their vain superiority of reason and knowledge.
Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls
It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.
It takes much more energy to ignore things than it takes to deal with them and not be afflicted by them anymore.
I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.
To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality.
Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be afflicted, but it is necessarily to be exposed to affliction. . . . Affliction is the surest sign that God wishes to be loved by us; it is the most precious evidence of His tenderness.
Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.
There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.
