"Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food"

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Source : Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

Joseph Butler

#Compassion Quotes #Unhappy Quotes #Demand Quotes

“To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.”

Source : Athol Fugard (2009). “Tsotsi”, p.38, Canongate Books
“I see God in every human being”
“If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.”
“If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.”
“I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.”
“You must stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds”
“What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.”
“What's become of "yes we can?" That's easy. Finally people are starting to read the bills.”

Source : The Arena debates: driving the conversation by David Mark, www.politico.com. August 21, 2009.

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