Karla Crome Quotes

I have the kind of conscience that it doesn't feel right if I watch other people suffer and I do nothing about it.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

I am one who shows great respect and commends the Cuban people for having the guts to go over to Cuba to get Cubans out when they had the opportunity to do it. I think it's a... shame that the Jews here in the United States in the 1930s didn't do the same for other Jews who were also in trouble.

I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility.

The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.

I can't look in the mirror and see people dying on the street that should have the same opportunities that I've had. And say 'You know what? I can live with myself.' Because I can't if I just watch.

We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.

My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

I think we should all have a responsibility not to affect other people in a negative way.

Now I come to 75 years of age, I think what's most important in life is your conscience. If you told a lie and made other people suffer, I think that's very difficult when you reach this age.

So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

How can you have a partnership when one of the partners doesn’t show up for 5 days…. The President said nothing while Americans watched people drown in New Orleans.

In a land of healing miracles, neighbors must not be allowed to suffer and die untended.

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

The numbers that we can welcome to our own countries are relatively small in comparison to the millions that have been displaced, but it's vital because it sets an example.

If I saw someone in need and I did nothing, I'd be defacing my own humanity.

We have a moral obligation to assist those fleeing religious persecution and to no longer turn a blind eye to the plight of our Christian brothers abroad.

One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they've been brutalized for so long.

It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.

All of us, as humans, as Americans, as people who are lucky enough to be a part of this country's ideals, should care about our neighbors seeking refuge.