(145 quotes found)
“With the wind of tribulation God separates, in the floor of the soul, the wheat from the chaff.”
Molinos
“What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”
Jeremy Bentham
“The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu.”
David L. Katz
“Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.”
Finley Peter Dunne
“If the Fed were to pause, what does it actually do for anybody ... in the afflicted Gulf region? At this point they're more concerned with basic food and shelter and not really comparison-shopping for mortgages.”
Barry Ritholtz
