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.
The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive ... the values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well as monetary. It is within the power of the legislature to determine that the community should be beautiful as well as healthy, spacious as well as clean, well balanced as well as carefully patroled.
We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding was like a sort of gas that exists when you believe in its existence and disappears when you doubt. The task of supporting it seems simple at first glance, but actually requires an ultimate refinement of calculation and a consummate skill.
Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.
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