The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.
A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions.
The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.