Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.
Interpretation
Rebellion against suffering is driven by the memory of past suffering.
This quote suggests that our resistance to suffering is not merely a reaction but is significantly influenced by our recollections of pain and hardship. The act of remembering past suffering empowers individuals to challenge and oppose current struggles, using those memories as a source of strength and motivation to pursue change and liberation from hardship.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships of the situation must not be merely transient - at least not in appearance. Otherwise, the enemy would not give in, but would wait for things to improve.
he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.
Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words.
Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.
You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown, I have a world apart that is not among men.
As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
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