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.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.Simone Weil
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.F. Scott Fitzgerald
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.Cicero