Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to "care" more.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

To the militant, identity is everything.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.)

Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.

No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.

To set their sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them (which hell was worse?), demoting Sarajevo's martyrdom to a mere instance.

Avoid the stage of old age sit in the audience, it's all the rage

Then one day a thought clicked my mind... and even theweirdest event in the past start Making complete sense...

The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me.

And it only matters how true you are. Be true to yourself and follow your heart.

There is no god greater than truth.

That's my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that's where my home is.

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.