“The scientific method is famous for requiring objectivity and emotional detachment on the part of the investigator. Scientific experimentation also involves extensive… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
“Seeing human suffering changes you. It either makes you compassionate or it makes you hard.” — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion:… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
“The Buddha taught that all human suffering is rooted in desire. Don't we all know this to be true? Any of us… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Vast populations in parasitic hot zones are without hospitals, doctors, drugs, or surgical equipment. Meanwhile, often directed at the very same underserved… — Kathleen McAuliffe Copy Share Image
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In our fibre-optic world of tweets and tablets, we are more conscious of the world around us. The technicolour violence and humanitarian… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
After the dead are buried, after the physical pain of grief has become a permanent wound in the soul, then comes the… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
With the passing of Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, who had just entered his 100th year, the world has lost one of the… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity,… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
“I thought there were limits to human suffering. At Bir-Jdid, I was to discover that there were none” — Malika Oufkir Copy Share Image
“If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“He has described in precise, measured words the beautiful desolation he feels at the close of novels where the message is that… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Unconditional love and acceptance of self seems to be the hardest task for all humankind. Refusing to accept our “real selves,” we… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“Nothing whatsoever, not even the existence of God to His lovers, can be proved, but that every man, if he is to… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children… — Tom Lantos Copy Share Image
