My belief is that when the military is used as the sole instrument of power, that never has a good outcome. If there's no one to take ownership and develop that failed state, human suffering can be even worse than that created by the conflict itself.
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering.
So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
Why do we write novels or make television about real things? It's the human condition and human suffering.
In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world - and then doing what is required to get that goal achieved.
In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.
The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.
Human suffering is not a competitive sport.
Although attracted by the humanities, I had chosen medicine as a career, seduced by the image of the 'man in white' dispensing care and solace to the suffering. But science was lurking around the corner, in the form of an unpaid student assistantship in the laboratory of physiology.
It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have been able to control our pain. If someone else is suffering, we like to tuck them away, out of sight. It's a cruel, cruel conditioning. There is no controlling the unfolding of life.
I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness.
Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.
When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.