Academy Quote by Richard Levins

Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable in the…

— Bertrand Russell

Cats, for the most part, seem indifferent to human activities that do not revolve around their needs and wants. They all but roll their…

— Joyce Jillson

I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went…

— Adam Rapp

My grandparents and my mother were marvelous people, but they were not particularly demonstrative in their love. It was teachers who were affectionate and…

— Deval Patrick

In our fibre-optic world of tweets and tablets, we are more conscious of the world around us. The technicolour violence and humanitarian abuses of…

— Peter Maurer

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial…

— C. S. Lewis

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua…

— John Negroponte

Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided,…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“Vast populations in parasitic hot zones are without hospitals, doctors, drugs, or surgical equipment. Meanwhile, often directed at the very same underserved regions, wealthy…

— Kathleen McAuliffe

And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the…

— Pope John Paul II

“The Buddha taught that all human suffering is rooted in desire. Don't we all know this to be true? Any of us who have…

— Elizabeth Gilbert