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Simone Weil

"Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him."

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"Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him."

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Donna Grant

"There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?"

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Donna Grant

"But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day."

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Donna Grant

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

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Donna Grant

"Maybe we have shoes so we can learn to walk in another's oath before judging their footsteps?"

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Donna Grant

"The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance."

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Donna Grant

"Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet."

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Donna Grant

"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."

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Donna Grant

"Just because an impressive storm doesn't touch you, you must not find it beautiful! Lend an ear to the voices of those which are under the storm!"

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Donna Grant

"When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate compulsion to give aid."

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Donna Grant

"Weeping for other people's pain isn't true weeping if it doesn't come from deep down your heart."

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Simone Weil
"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."

Work

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Simone Weil
"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."

Man

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Simone Weil
"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."

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Simone Weil
"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

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Simone Weil
"With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed."

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Simone Weil
"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."

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Simone Weil
"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."

Being

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"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."

People

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Simone Weil
"I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her."

Nation

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Simone Weil
"A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless."

Science

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