Dennis Miller Quotes

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

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

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.

It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.

We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.

Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.

There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.

Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own.

If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.

How can I act in an impersonal manner? When a man dies in the street for want of food, how can I ignore him? When I find a starving or naked man in the street, I cannot walk past him. I think no human being can do that.

I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.

I can think of no greater God-given responsibility we have than that of extending a helping hand to our fellow man.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.

What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands, Say, This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can...

Whenever I see a homeless guy, I always run back and give him money, because I think, 'Oh my God, what if that was Jesus?'

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.

I'm quite shocked and have been for quite a while as for the way people are treating each other. That's why I go out and I speak for the hungry, and if I see somebody needs a hug during the day, I'll go and give them a hug, and I think we should all use a little bit more of that.

Well, you know, like, I don't really give a f**k what the general public think.

I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.