Top 109 Grievance Quotes & Sayings

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

The leftist vision of politics as a matter of rights begets an attitude of grievance and entitlement.

I support anybody that does have a grievance to be able to air it, and that's it.

As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.

The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.

The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.

The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.

No person with a grievance can be also a person with an attractive personality!

it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

grievance does not make for great art.

What's a major concern that people, major grievance Americans lodge? It's, we don't make anything in America anymore.

The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon another, in whatever country that may be done.

I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But it is one of the most effective under certain conditions.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

The question the electorate asks is: 'What can you do for us? Are you just using us to defeat somebody because you have a personal grievance?'

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.

The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

There's a new grievance every day to write about.

A grievance is a political action. It's not just African-Americans.

One of the things that happens to you if you write about restaurants - one of the reasons restaurant critics are the real heroes - is that whenever anyone has a grievance about any aspect of the business, they tell you about it.

Every decision I make is a choice between a grievance and a miracle.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.

The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.

Inclusiveness is expanded by grievance. If I were a mistress, I would not need to fight for my career.

No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.

It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness - incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.

Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor.

Round and round will Americans be compelled to ride on a mindless, manufactured, racial carousel... for without it, the edifice of an industry built upon grievance and excuse-making is destined to collapse.

There are some people who do not want this thing to continue to work, and that's what they're doing is all about. They don't want to unify. They don't want this thing to work. That's the whole point of going forth with grievance after grievance after grievance and victim after victim after victim, because this inherent system... There is an all-out assault on the unity of this country. There are people whose express purpose is to rip it apart.

Mercedes nursed a special grievance - the grievance of sex. She was pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her days. But the present treatment by her husband and brother was everything save chivalrous. It was her custom to be helpless. They complained. Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex pregorative, she made their lives unendurable.

I don't have any grievance against anybody.

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.

Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.

You can't hold on to a grievance and be happy. Time to make a choice!

Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged.

The grievance industry always seeks to blame other people while never finding a solution. That's my problem with it, when solutions are there to be had.

White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.

Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.

By appeasing the anti-racism lobby and affirming its culture of grievance, public institutions and business leaders are not making Britain a fairer place. In fact they are harming the very people they aspire to help.

If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

I delight in offending people. I think the grievance brigade, victimhood, the idea that hurt feelings are some kind of special currency - I think that needs to come to an end.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.