James Randi Quotes

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'

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.

When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer.

A child deserves the maximum respect.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Only the tortured can understand those who have been tortured.

I do feel that softness for the vulnerability and the innocence in our world, including my own.

Human suffering is not a competitive sport.

I'm a really strong guy. I can deal with a lot of things. But I can't deal with anybody suffering.

I would be more angry if an animal were treated cruelly than people, because people can defend themselves.

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

The voiceless and most defenseless ones are the animals, so most of my attention goes to them.

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.

I have a soft spot for children.

For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.

This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.