“Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act.”

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer, book Bumi Manusia

Source: Bumi Manusia

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act." by Pramoedya Ananta Toer?

Pramoedya Ananta Toer7

Indonesian writer 1925–2006

Related quotes

“The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.”

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer

“The Finder” (p. 85)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)

“There are the people in this world who act, and the people who scheme. The ones who act get things done, and the ones who scheme try to take credit for it. You must know that as well as I do.”

Algis Budrys book Rogue Moon

Source: Rogue Moon (1960), Chapter 1, Section 3 (p. 27)

“Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.”

Lewis Pugh (1969) Environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer

Website

“I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it. I mean, people really have come to believe-directors, producers, agents, whoever it may be-that I started in this because I wanted to be a celebrity. But that was never my intention.”

Lindsay Lohan (1986) American actress and pop singer

Interview interview (2009)

“And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“I do not question the sincerity or the good intentions of those who feel that way.”

Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1887–1952) British politician, agriculturalist and colonial administrator (1887-1952)

10 January 1940, Speech at Orient Club, Bombay, also quoted in Speeches and Statements of the Marquess of Linlithgow, p. 229.

“It bodes well for the future that young people are thinking so intently about political issues.”

Jo Cox (1974–2016) UK politician

On a return visit to their former school, Heckmondwike Grammar School — Emmerdale actress Tracy Brabin and Labour politician Jo Cox return to Heckmondwike Grammar School http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/local-news/emmerdale-actress-tracy-brabin-labour-7818688 (23 September 2014)