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“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.”
Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), p. 101,
Context: Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. 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.
Donald Trump: "Torture works" http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-torture-works/. CBS News (17 February 2016). Bluffton, South Carolina.
2010s, 2016, February
Dedication for the exhibit "After September 11 : Images from Ground Zero." (31 December 2001) http://italy.usembassy.gov/policy/events/020311/
(1986) n.p.
Structures are no longer valid', in "Ein Gespräch..."
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Source: The Book of Lies
Le mal n'est peut-être qu'un violent plaisir. Qui pourrait déterminer le point où la volupté devient un mal et celui où le mal est encore la volupté ? Les plus vives lumières du monde idéal ne caressent-elles pas la vue, tandis que les plus douces ténèbres du monde physique la blessent toujours.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part I: The Talisman
Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible
"Villanelle" (1928), line 1; cited from John Haffenden (ed.) The Complete Poems (London: Allen Lane, 2000) p. 33.
The Complete Poems
(XII.2) Del Rey, p. 412
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
The Eighth Revelation, Chapter 18
Context: Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.
And all creatures that might suffer pain, suffered with Him: that is to say, all creatures that God hath made to our service. The firmament, the earth, failed for sorrow in their Nature in the time of Christ’s dying. For it belongeth naturally to their property to know Him for their God, in whom all their virtue standeth: when He failed, then behoved it needs to them, because of kindness, to fail with Him, as much as they might, for sorrow of His pains.
Sec. 115
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain. This 'tis possible will be thought, by kind parents, a very unnatural thing towards their children; and by most, unreasonable...
