Paul Lafargue Quotes

The miseries suffered by our people come more from the shameless exploitation of our countries.

Want is misery.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

The real world is horrible.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime.

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief.

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

It's not been a pleasant life.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.