Robert Gibbs Quotes

When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining.

It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could.

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

I just think self-satisfied people ignore certain signs about other people.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

I was not insensitive to these mutilations.

People aren't very good at other people's pain.

When one woman found out I had multiple sclerosis, she said to me, 'My heart bleeds for you.' I said to her, 'Well, my heart bleeds for you, because you're an idiot.'

I can't stand people who say they've got 'Africa fatigue.'

I believe Jews are compassionate people because of what we've suffered. We must not put that suffering onto others.

If you feel more emotion looking at a picture of queuing lorries than a picture of desperate humans living in a lay-by, you need to check your bedtime routine for someone beating you round the head with a meat tenderiser.

Human suffering is not, nor should it ever be, a political issue.

They say that I'm very calculated and not very sensitive - that a regular, average person, there are many things that bother them, and I don't see or feel it.

Trump erases the ability to recognize suffering and to try to understand the conditions that produce it, the ability to become a moral witness in the face of injustices. Trump erases that. Trump appeals to a population in which that becomes irrelevant. And that is so dangerous, at this particular time.

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness.

Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.

Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.