Abandoned Quote by David Bowie

People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in…

— Leo Tolstoy

If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate actually went…

— Sebastian Junger

For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from the world…

— Susanna Kaysen

In southern Italy, where my grandparents had lived, there were few opportunities. The society was static, with rigid social classes. Poor people, like my…

— Samuel Alito

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men…

— John Eldredge

The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of…

— Walter Winchell

The victims of social injustice, since time eternal, have always been without the resources and the ability to fight back. They are defenseless and…

— Tommy Makem

No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

But we have inherited a vast number of social ills which never came from Nature. They are the complicated products of all the tinkering,…

— William Graham Sumner

“To augment their misery, a contagious disorder of a dangerous nature spread through the land; and, rendered more virulent by the uncleanness, the indifferent…

— Walter Scott

People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently…

— Elsa Maxwell