There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
Boris Yeltsin

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.
George Meredith

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn

Truth suffers from too much analysis.
Frank Herbert

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
Walter Lippmann

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
DeForest Soaries

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.
James Norman Hall

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
James Joyce