Suffering Of Others Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Men, Order, Wish

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.64, Penguin

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• Land mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are civilians, women and children. How can arms manufacturers, weapons designers, plant managers, politicians, who have families of their own whom they love, be so insensitive when it comes to the suffering of other human beings?

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Children, Pain, Love Is

  Jose Ramos-Horta's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1996.

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• Character is revealed in the power to discern the suffering of other people when we ourselves are suffering; in the ability to detect the hunger of others when we are hungry; and in the power to reach out and extend compassion for the spiritual agony of others when we are in the midst of our own spiritual distress.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Character, Compassion

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• Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

  Ba Jin

  Moving, Writing, Eye

  "Literary witness to century of turmoil". "China Daily", November 24, 2003.

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• 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

  War, Depth, Misery

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• We should try our best to relieve the suffering of others in whatever way we can.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Trying, Way, Should

  Twitter post from Nov 03, 2012

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• I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Selfish, Men, Made

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• 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

  Lonely, Feelings, Able

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Being”, p.90, Open Road Media

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• I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

  Sarah Fielding

  Children, Mind, Bears

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• ... 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

  Science, Effort, Important

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

  Joy Harjo

  Inspirational, Pain, True Power

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• 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

  Mother, People, Imagination

  Ernst Toller (1937). “Look Through the Bars: Letters from Prison, Poems, and a New Version of "The Swallow Book"”

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• By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Morning, Book, Fall

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• Is it really that much better to make friends with animals before you kill them than to treat them as nameless, faceless objects before you kill them? From a yogic point of view, one must weigh the karmic consequences of perceiving others as mere objects to be used and the consequences of profiting from the suffering of others.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Views, Used

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• I will never be ok with the suffering of others - that I will likely continue to fight so I must treat it as a marathon race not a sprint.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Fighting, Race, Marathon

  "Interview with True Blood Star, Kristin Bauer". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• 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

  Believe, Eye, World

  "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.

  Suzy Kassem

  Acceptance, Men, Empathy

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen and heard. The reverse also happens.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Fall, Eye

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• Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people's lives as if they were genuinely concerned to help them, but the truth was that they took pleasure in the suffering of others, because that made them believe they were happy and that life had been generous with them

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, People, Helping

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• The experience of losing a loved one impels us toward a deeper understanding of life. Everyone fears and is saddened by death. That is natural. But by struggling to overcome the pain and sadness that accompanies death, we become sharply aware of the dignity and preciousness of life and develop the compassion to share the sufferings of others as our own.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Pain, Struggle, Sadness

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• Many people today in the developed countries are so far removed from poverty and suffering and starvation that they lack empathy for the sufferings of others.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, People, Empathy

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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