on suffering, morality and social repsonsibility…
“Compassion collapses when we are presented with numbers rather than individual stories. It’s an emotional deficiency that leads to moral failure.
— Paul Slovic
"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."
— HANNA ARENDT
"The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all evil in the world.”
— Paul Farmer
"If I bet on humanity, I’d never cash a ticket.”
— Charles Bukowski
In a world filled with suffering, the responsibility to communicate moral and ethical issues lies in finding ways to connect emotionally with people while also presenting rational, actionable solutions.”
— Peter Singer
“BBoundless compassion for all living beings is the surest and most certain guarantee of pure moral conduct, and needs no casuistry. Whoever is filled with it will assuredly injure no one, do harm to no one, encroach on no man's rights; he will rather have regard for every one, forgive every one, help every one as far as he can, and all his actions will bear the stamp of justice and loving-kindness.
— arthur schopenhauer
“To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.”
— Thomas merton
"The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference."
— Elie Wiesel
“"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
— MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."