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... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.

Albion Fellows Bacon
suffering-of-others philosophical philosophy

... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from the suffering of others; it is more comfortable to stay within the bounds of science.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
suffering-of-others effort science

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

Alexander McCall Smith
suffering-of-others moral imagination

I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles.

Anais Nin
suffering-of-others miracle blow

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

Anna Funder
suffering-of-others imagination people
one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of othe... by Anna Funder

one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us

Anna Funder
suffering-of-others pain doe

Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test of virtue is to make suffering the most important part of life. Then man must wish to see others suffer in order that he may be virtuous. Such is the nature of altruism.

Ayn Rand
suffering-of-others men order

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

Daisaku Ikeda
suffering-of-others depth war

The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being

Dalai Lama
suffering-of-others compassion essence

All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on the workers, environment, and future generations. We have a straightforward proposal: if they want public money, we want public control. It's that simple.

Derrick Jensen
suffering-of-others simple want
The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering... by Edward Abbey

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

Edward Abbey
suffering-of-others heroic acceptance

A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet 'for sale', who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society.

Erich Fromm
suffering-of-others lonely feelings

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

Ernst Toller
suffering-of-others mother people
Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering o... by Geoffrey Wood

Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.

Geoffrey Wood
suffering-of-others heal matter
Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of... by George C. Wallace

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

George C. Wallace
suffering-of-others littles people

People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

Isabel Burton
suffering-of-others selfish people

To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches from being human, to become in the end capable of nothing, generous or unselfish; or sometimes capable of anything, however terrible.

John Austin Baker
suffering-of-others imagination heart

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

Jonathan Swift
suffering-of-others christian bears
True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of other... by Joy Harjo

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

Joy Harjo
suffering-of-others pain inspirational

Being involved with Oxfam has really opened my eyes to the world at large and the suffering of others. But my background and my life experience are what have allowed me to understand how interconnected we all are. I believe one person suffering reverberates throughout the world.

Joy Bryant
suffering-of-others eye believe
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