Helping-others-quotes Quote by Jennifer Bohnhoff

“There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.”

— Sam Harris

“He was convinced that poverty was the only way of life for a certain category of people; they would die without it.”

— Ninotchka Rosca

“He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.”

— Alice Hoffman

“But I wondered. Maybe the world wasn't made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Maybe there were just people.…

— Clare Vanderpool

“Why did people have to get their hearts broken before they learned who and what was good for them and who was bad for…

— Shannon Guymon

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should live their lives, but none about their own.”

— Itayi Garande

“I realized that the only people that were ever going to help us were ourselves.”

— Alexandra Bracken

“Human hierarchies of any kind, they understood, would do little more than oppress all of humanity. But”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“They seemed, like himself, to be living in a world which did not want them.”

— Thomas Hardy

“Everyone had an ulterior motive in his worldview. Everyone was self-serving and therefore a potential instrument of pain. The world was a lonely, awful,…

— Jeremy Dyson

“...and I wondered, not for the first time, if some of life's tragedy arose when people put themselves in situations they were not by…

— Charlotte Rogan

“But the point about that kind of stuff was that you needed someone around to be proudly independent and self-reliant. People who didn’t need…

— Terry Pratchett