Quotes About Grievance

#1. To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

Alan Coren

#2. I am so old that I can remember when other people's achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.

Thomas Sowell

#3. Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

Michael Parenti

#4. No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.

Thomas Paine

#5. If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.

David Horowitz

#6. The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#7. The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.

Gilbert Burnet

#8. Every decision I make is a choice between a grievance and a miracle.

Deepak Chopra

#9. Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.

William J. Clinton

#10. If God had not grievance to all, we will not have survived up to the time we repented

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.

Deepak Chopra

#12. In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.

Lazare Carnot

#13. There are many things that bother me. I know that I have never passed a man on the street that I liked - most of them giving off a kind of ether of disgust and stumbling and clay-eating, snot-eating grievance. I don't like the human race at all. this is my confessional, father, pass the wine.

Charles Bukowski

#14. I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

Justin Sane

#15. What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing.

Richard Sibbes

#16. We are all such egotists that a sorrow or hardship - provided it is great enough - flatters our self-importance. We feel that a calamity by overtaking us has distinguished us above our fellows. A man likes not to be ignored even by a railway accident. A man with a grievance is always happy.

W.N.P. Barbellion

#17. As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.

Beverley Nichols

#18. A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness
incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.

Fran Lebowitz

#19. An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to appreciate this. Then he has a deep sense of grievance ...

Stephen Spender

#20. How close beneath the surface, even in the happiest family, is the chronic grievance! I sometimes think that tinderboxes are inert and powder kegs mere talcum compared to the explosive possibilities in the most commoplace domestic situation.

Margaret Halsey

#21. It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.

Jane Swisshelm

#22. To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one's scapegoats.

Jacques Barzun

#23. It has never been hard to tell the difference between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

P.G. Wodehouse

#24. Grievance into a succinct and pithy phrase, while mobilizing the people to combat it. Our slogan

Nelson Mandela

#25. Grievance is a sullen little boat, blown in the creepy breeze of ridiculous sighs.

Michael Perry

#26. A leader does not air a grievance, a leader carry an air of glory.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson

#27. Every time we allow our mind to harbour a grudge, nurse a grievance, entertain an impure fantasy, or wallow in self-pity, we are sowing to the flesh.

John R.W. Stott

#28. No person with a grievance can be also a person with an attractive personality!

Napoleon Hill

#29. The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.

Clark Kerr

#30. The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

Eckhart Tolle

#31. One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

Alice Walker

#32. Grievance does not make for great art.

Eva Figes

#33. Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.

Toni Morrison

#34. The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.

Laozi

#35. People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

Eric Hoffer

#36. Every grievance you hold hides a little more of the light of the world from your eyes until the darkness becomes overwhelming. Everything you forgive restores that light. So ask yourself, who is it that you are really hurting?

Donna Goddard

#37. Man is equal to man. There should not be exploitation. One should help the other. No one should harm anybody. Generally there should be no room for grievance or complaint from anybody. Everyone should live and let others live, with a national spirit.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#38. an Italian can never be ignored, least of all when he has a grievance.

E. M. Forster

#39. Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Robert Frost

#40. You can't hold on to a grievance and be happy. Time to make a choice!

Robert Holden

#41. A woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

Elsie De Wolfe

#42. On one hand, the RGI [Race Grievance Industry] will declare that race is a social construct, but then use race to socially construct a paycheck.

Taleeb Starkes

#43. So ... do I have to go punch Stone in the face, or just burp in Richardson's class?" Caleb
"Do what?" Nick
"I'm trying to gauge how much detention I need to earn to match yours. Therefore I'm asking the severity of my grievance and who to assault for it." Caleb

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#44. To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#45. It went on from there. One last, god-awful, no-holds-barred blue; one of those fights where you pour out every poisonous thought you've ever had, the dregs of every grievance, and you set the cup in front of the other person and force them to drink it.

Geraldine Brooks

#46. Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.

Camille Paglia

#47. Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor.

John F. Kennedy

#48. She closed one eye and looked at me and said, "I know there is a blessing in this somewhere."
It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Another reason why you must be careful of your health.

Marilynne Robinson

#49. The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.

Edward Abbey

#50. He puffed out his pigeon chest and waddled across the room towards me. With his feet pointing outwards, he looked like a fat duck with a grievance.

Chris Thrall

#51. I think the Duke of Buckingham is the cause of all our miseries, and till the King be informed thereof, we shall never go out with honor, or sit with honor here. That man is the grievance of grievances. Let us set down the causes of all our disasters and they will all reflect upon him.

Edward Coke

#52. Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.

Brendan I. Koerner

#53. Round and round will Americans be compelled to ride on a mindless, manufactured, racial carousel ... for without it, the edifice of an industry built upon grievance and excuse-making is destined to collapse.

Ilana Mercer

#54. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

Evita Peron

#55. Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

Kenneth Clarke

#56. Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.

Anthony Trollope

#57. Unions can play a valuable role in large organisations where it is difficult to talk to a thousand people. They can negotiate annual pay awards with management, represent grievance cases, and explain and advise on complicated changes in employment or pension law.

Jim Ratcliffe

#58. Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged.

Charles Dickens

#59. Her soul rusted with that grievance sticking in it

Virginia Woolf

#60. The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.

Barton Gellman

#61. Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

Robert Kennedy

#62. Eleanor's greatest grievance was not a simpering lass with flaxen hair and smooth skin. It was Aquitaine, always Aquitaine.

Sharon Kay Penman

#63. To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.

Mahatma Gandhi

#64. It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

Marilynne Robinson

#65. There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

Abraham Lincoln

#66. She had seen behind the obvious truth
that Mumbai was a hive of hope and ambition
to a profitable corollary. Mumbai was a place of festering grievance and ambient envy. Was there a soul in this enriching, unequal city who didn't blame his dissatisfaction on someone else?

Katherine Boo

#67. We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives with the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

C.S. Lewis

#68. Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance.

Eric Hoffer

#69. The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon another, in whatever country that may be done.

Bayley

#70. The liberty of God's people is a heavy grievance to their enemies, Esth. 5:12, 13; Acts 5:17, 33.

Matthew Henry

#71. Give Call a grievance, however silly, and he would save it like money.

Larry McMurtry

#72. Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.

John Lydgate

#73. Stannis Baratheon with a grievance was like a mastiff with a bone; he gnawed it down to splinters.

George R R Martin

#74. It is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

Harriet Martineau

#75. Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.

Fran Lebowitz

#76. I love the magic of a hot bath, how time pauses and every grievance melts away.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#77. There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.

Anthony Trollope

#78. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Eric Hoffer

#79. History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

A. N. Wilson

#80. Liberalism is a series of grievances in addition to everything else that it is.

Rush Limbaugh

#81. Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

Booker T. Washington

#82. We are the ones who suffer when we hold on to past grievances.

Louise Hay

#83. Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.

Gregg Easterbrook

#84. There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.

William O. Douglas

#85. Next minute you'll be telling me there's nothing wrong,' he said softly. 'One of the all time favourite lies women employ when they're hiding huge grievances.

Lindsay Armstrong

#86. Never repeat old grievances.

George Bernard Shaw

#87. If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.

Josh Billings