Bill Ayers Quotes

We're like everybody else. We hurt like everybody.

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.

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

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

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.

Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.

Surly bleeding hearts are better than bleeding bodies.

Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!

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

Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.

I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.

That's why I'm never happy. Every tragedy, I really feel very painful - especially about a child or old people. This is reality. We try to close eyes and ears, but it's happening every second, and somehow, unfortunately, I feel a connection.

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

Cruelty isn't softened by tears; it feeds on them.

Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.

In our inherent contradictions as humans, and in order to validate our own pain, we deny the pain of others. But it is in acknowledging the pain of others that we achieve fully our humanity.

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?