“Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.”
Bible
“As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery… we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.”
Dalai Lama
“People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy”
Mikhail Bakunin
“Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.”
Chanakya
“In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Nature has made us frivolous to console us for our miseries”
Voltaire
“not only generated misery and poverty but also a great social tragedy that added to institutional instability in the region, provoking the fall of democratically elected governments.”
Nestor Kirchner
