“Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.”
Victor Cousin
“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
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
Winston Churchill
“Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.”
Chanakya
“Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery; in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.”
Blaise Pascal
“My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“A person should refrain from all those things that take him towards fallacy, misery, ignorance and degradation. ”
Atharva Veda
