Israeli soldiers Quote by Izzeldin Abuelaish

“The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance.”

— Bryant McGill

“Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which…

— Julie Otsuka

“Ultimately, we lacked the courage to face up to our own true selves—our bare forms noble though petty, everything though nothing, almighty though powerless,…

— Sakyo Komatsu

“Their faces were contorted with a horror only known to those who have silenced their consciences.”

— Chris Nicolaisen

“Give a name to suffering, perhaps the most immediate reminder of our insignificance and powerlessness, and suddenly it bears the trace of the human.…

— Gary Greenberg

“The only person in history who did not deserve to suffer, suffered most.”

— John Piper

“It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.”

— Natsume Sōseki

“Humans were capable of incredible cruelty, our father wanted me, my sister, and my brothers to understand. And just as dangerous, he made us…

— Joe Biden

“…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under…

— John Brunner

“We are not the victims of our circumstances; we are the creators of them!”

— Doreen Banaszak

“And indeed, if we had only the courage to listen to the simplest, the nearest, most pressing voice of our conscience, and be deaf…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“Human is a suffered mind but an enlightened soul.”

— Santosh Kalwar