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“If we neglect or abandon those who are suffering in poverty ... not only are we depriving ourselves of potential opportunities for markets and economic growth, but ultimately that despair may turn to violence that turns on us.”

Ifs May Suffering Turns Opportunity Growth Poverty Violence Economic Despair Abandon Neglect Economic Growth Depriving

Author:Barack Obama

“I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair.... I watch the American slaughterhouse, the casual attacks on popes, presidents, and uncounted others, and I wonder if there are many more out there with the Ability or if butchery has simply become the modern way of life.”

Ifs Way Giving President Ability Wonder Watches Violence Modern Despair Pope Pits Casual Slaughterhouses Butchery

Book:Carrion Comfort

Source: Carrion Comfort

“The situation is getting worse, and people are losing hope. That despair stokes violence.”

People Situation Violence Despair Losing Losing Hope Stoke

Author:Saleh al-Mutlaq

“[...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab with pincers and rainbow shell, walked delicately ever sideways but getting nowhere, while the sun [...] rose higher in the sky its tassels dropping with flame threatening every moment to melt the precarious highway of glass. And the people: giant pathworks of colour with limbs missing and parts of their mind snipped off to fit them into the outline of the free pattern.”

“Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect”

Self Force Violence Despair Complexes Fearless Self Respect Native Inaction Inferiority Cleansing Inferiority Complex

Book:Damnés de la terre

Source: Damnés de la terre

“We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-belief, in a world of brutality, violence, despair, anxiety. To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.”

World Needs Humans Long Belief Energy Human Beings Violence Despair Anxiety Psychological Brutality

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“If a spaceship from the outer reaches of the galaxy landed on Earth in the next two months, and its occupants climbed out and presented Earthlings with a list of secrets - a simple formula - for making life finally work on this planet without violence, killing, and war, without turmoil, pain, and suffering, without want, lack, and despair, do you think we would be wise to look it over? Even if it contradicted everything we knew to be true or thought to be so?”