Margaret Trudeau Quotes

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

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

Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.

I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

Though we cannot relieve all the distressed, we should relieve as many as we can.

If you're someone who reads, find someone who can't .... Join the community of conscience.

The end of all education should surely be service to others

We all need to realize that there are people out there who may be suffering and we all need to try to do our part to relieve that suffering when we can.

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

If I see a down-and-out I can't walk past, it really gets to me and I want to do everything I can.

I believe we should utilise any power we have for important issues that are bigger and beyond us. Whether it's with refugees or working to educate kids. I don't think you need to have gone through a civil war to do something. I believe as human beings, we can look out for each other.

Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem from a disdain that suffering is happening at all.

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?

We are fortunate people. It is our need and responsibility to help our fellow man.

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.