#wretched

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. ↗

— Plato

#ever #injustice #made #more #suffers

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. ↗

— Plautus

#guilt #man #mind #more #nothing

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#during #economic #economically #federal #generates

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alzheimer #any #atrophy #best #could

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#entirely #happy #loved #make #seeks

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#being rich #live #people #rich #rich people

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#desperately #how #just #makes #me

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#city #condition #does #growth #increase

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. ↗

— John Major

#argument #biggest #biggest mistake #both #both sides

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them. ↗

— Augusto Roa Bastos

#forgets #happens #memory #remembers #them