Doug Marlette famous quotes

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  • Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

  • When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

  • I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.

  • If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.

  • Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend to make us meaner rather than better human beings, less sensitive to the demands of justice, compassion and fellow humanity in our times.

  • Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

  • As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

  • In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.

  • There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

  • If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.