Unjustified Suffering Quotes

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. There's also a negative side.

The test is pointless. It will kill people for no reason

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.

If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable.

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.

The norm was to kill everyone who was kidnapped. And anyone kidnapped was tortured … torture didn’t always work. It left people too destroyed …Torture is eternal. It has always existed and always will. It is an essential part of the human being …. Not one innocent person passed through my hands.

Reprisals are an exception to the general rule of equity, that an innocent person ought not to suffer for the guilty.

In 1978, 'Time' magazine sent me to do a story about children in Southeast Asia fathered by American GIs. What I saw was very upsetting, but the story they published was whitewashed.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

Those who tortured me had no right to inflict such humiliation on a human being, physically upon my person, and morally upon themselves.

No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.

I was like a lamb that is led to the slaughter.

Enormous slaughter may have been acceptable in previous centuries. It simply isn't acceptable anymore.

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.

The issue is not whether there are serious moral and practical costs to employing torture—of course there are for torture is evil. That is precisely why the choice of whether employ it to avert a greater evil is a tragic one.

I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests.