"For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act."

-- Paul Farmer

#Suffering Quotes #Tools Quotes #Moral Quotes

“Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.”
“Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.”
“Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.”
“The President should spend his time going after the terrorists rather than sharing sensitive counter terrorism information with countries that sponsor terrorism.”
“One of the nice things about looking at a bear is that you know it spends 100 per cent of every minute of every day being a bear. It doesn't strive to become a better bear. It doesn't go to sleep thinking, "I wasn't really a very good bear today". They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment”
“From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.”
“If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.”
“Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once. If he raises a fist; punches a hole in the wall; throws things at you; blocks your way; restrains you; grabs, pushes, or pokes you; or threatens to hurt you, that's physical abuse. He is creating fear and using your need for physical freedom and safety as a way to control you.”

Source : Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.128, Penguin

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