Afflict The Comfortable Quotes

#1. A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#2. Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Finley Peter Dunne

#3. The business of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable was one of the aphorisms his boss liked to quote.

Sara Gruen

#4. I come to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.

Lucille Clifton

#5. Comfort and power can become great enemies of true spirituality, which explains why we often say that the prophets come not only to comfort the afflicted, but also to afflict the comfortable.

Brian D. McLaren

#6. In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#7. Stories can educate, elevate, comfort, and afflict those who are too comfortable. They can create community. They can also drive people apart, justify unspeakable crimes, and destroy the most basic concepts of civil society. You

Jonathan Shapiro