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War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Martin Luther
War
Religion
Humanity
States
Destroys
Greatest
Afflict
Families
Scourge
Any
Plague
Preferable
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Blaise Pascal
Little Things
Console
Because
Afflict
Little
Us
Things
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Robert Frost
Work
Worst
Supposed
Executives
Afflict
Disease
Egotism
Which
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Life
Wrong
Also
Comfort
Comfortable
Comfortably
Verily
Afflict
Afflicted
Happily
Should
Even
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
Good
Must
Only
Like
Also
Comfort
Comfortable
Afflict
Afflicted
Should
Sermon
Ad
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Cardinal Richelieu
War
God
Men
Pleased
Afflict
Which
I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a work of art can be measured by the harm spoken of it. If you're not feeling that, then absolutely, why bother?
David Shields
Work
Art
You
Writing
Value
Trouble
Feeling
Bother
Absolutely
Idea
Spoken
Liked
Comfort
Comfortable
Always
Afflict
Afflicted
Then
Create
Should
Measured
Why
Why Bother
Harm
Most of us entered journalism and joined 'news organizations' because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
David Shuster
Good
News
Care
Entered
Strive
About
Joined
Journalism
Most
Comfort
Comfortable
Greater
Because
Greater Good
Afflict
Afflicted
Us
Organizations
For me, what's the old expression, 'Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,' that's really what religion is good at when it is done right. And the truth is, so is television.
Mike Rowe
Truth
Good
Religion
Me
Truth Is
Old
Television
Comfort
Comfortable
Afflict
Afflicted
Done
Really
Expression
Right