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“Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.”

Giving Moral Too Much Importance Tragedy Life And Death Defects Giving Too Much

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women-half of all people-that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to give birth is a tragedy for all society.”

People Giving Humans Mean Humanity Understanding Women Human Beings Half Power Society Baby Birth Machines Tragedy Inferiors Inadequate Giving Birth Containers Humanness

Author:Marsden Wagner

“To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.”

Giving Space Tests Tragedy Closeness Great Tragedy

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“In Serbia's case, the unresolved accountability for the Bytyqi brothers massacre needs to be resolved. And we would urge you to give this matter prompt and immediate attention to bring those responsible to justice for this tragedy.”

Needs Giving Matter Justice Attention Cases Brother Tragedy Responsible Urges Accountability Prompts Massacres Serbia

Author:Ben Cardin

“We have to understand - not justify - what gives rise to this tragedy. It's not because they're looking for beautiful virgins in heaven, as Orientalists portray it. Palestinian people are in love with life. If we give them hope - a political solution - they'll stop killing themselves.”

People Ifs Giving Beautiful Political Heaven Solutions Tragedy Killing Love Life Justify Palestinian Virgins

Author:Mahmoud Darwish

“If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility of conflict - and of tragedy - can never wholly be eliminated from human life, either personal or social. The necessity of choosing between absolute claims is then an inescapable characteristic of the human condition. This gives its value to freedom as Acton conceived of it - as an end in itself, and not as a temporary need, arising out of our confused notions and irrational and disordered lives, a predicament which a panacea could one day put right.”

“We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.”

Giving Happens Answers Events Citizens Tragedy Victim Truthful Flood New Orleans

Author:Charles Rangel

“The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.”

Way Giving Earth Feet Mankind Havens Ultimate Tragedy Blessed Checks

Author:Gilbert Adair

“The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.”

Giving Ideas War Individual Given Destruction Tragedy Army Absolutes Misery No Idea Regions Given Up Wretchedness Individual Life Great Tragedy

Book:Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

Source: Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

“Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks. They are not people whose lives have been calm and predictable. A life under tight control sometimes produces quiet desperation. High well-being is a life that has depth and quality. Risks, losses, problems, and tragedy add pain to a life. That pain becomes a teacher. We learn; the pain gives us no choice.”

Source: Success Is the Quality of Your Journey