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“People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling. The states described as apathy, moral or emotional anesthesia, are full of feelings; the feelings are rage and frustration. ”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
“We see things not as they are, but as we are. Because it is the 'I' behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.”
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“Someone who is permanently surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
“[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
Sumayyah’s 2024 Year in Books
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