Bill Richardson Quotes

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.

To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.

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

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

People are hurting. People are suffering. But you can not get everywhere.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.

You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

We're not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that've had to.

A world without God cannot wait for us to choose the safe path. If we wait for someone else to take the risk, we risk that no one will ever act and that nothing will ever be accomplished.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

We must do right and risk the consequences.

It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.

I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook.

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.