"Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral."

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Source : Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins (2007). “Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society”, p.369, NYU Press

Richard Levins

#Suffering Quotes #Scholarship Quotes #Indifferent Quotes

“But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.”
“Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.”
“Everyone deserves compassion.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've been offered quite a few network shows, over the past couple of years, and always turned them down because I never wanted the commitment. The way that it works in America, you do a pilot and then you wait, and I just thought that wasn't really what I was interested in doing, in that moment.”
“I have never been loved enough to gain the desire of reproducing a being in the image of my lover and I have never been given enough pleasure so that my brain has not had the leisure to seek better...I have wanted the impossible...”
“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”

Source : Howard Zinn (1997). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.383, Seven Stories Press
“Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.”
“All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.”

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