Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VII - On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books
“Liberation is thus a childbirth, and a painful one.”
Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 1, on the oppressed
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Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, and founder of the Swiss Reformed Churches
Zwingli Opera, Corpus Reformatorum, Volume 1, p. 424.
U.G. Krishnamurti (1918–2007) Indian philosopher
Source: No Way Out (2002), Ch. 2: Nothing To Be Transformed
Context: Whether you are interested in moksha, liberation, freedom, transformation, you name it, you are interested in happiness without one moment of unhappiness, pleasure without pain, it is the same thing. Whether one is here in India or Russia or in America or anywhere, what people want is to have one without the other. But there is no way you can have one without the other. This demand is not in the interest of the survival of this living organism.
Denis Mukwege (1955) Congolese gynecologist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Source: Denis Mukwege (2021) cited in " 'We Cannot Rest in Our Fight.' Angelina Jolie Talks to Dr. Denis Mukwege About Supporting Victims of Sexual Violence https://time.com/6124350/angelina-jolie-denis-mukwege/" on TIME, 1 December 2021.
“Too cruel, lady, is the pain,
You bid me thus revive again.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 39
“Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy.”
Spider Robinson (1948) Canadian author
"Callahan's Law", as expressed in The Callahan Chronicals (1996) [originally published as Callahan and Company (1988)], Part IV : Earth … and Beyond, "Post Toast", p. 388. On the back cover of Callahan's Legacy (1996) this is modified into "Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased (and bad puns are appreciated).
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
