Julian Assange Quotes

It's such a simple thing, really. It's an awareness that the other people in the world are other people, and that you are one of them. That every time you have a chance to help somebody out, to do what's right instead of what you think you're supposed to do, you should do it.

Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.

Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law

A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.

It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because you think the Creator of the Universe wants you to do it, or will reward you for doing it, or will punish you for not doing it. The problem with this linkage between religion and morality is that it gives people bad reasons to help other human beings when good reasons are available.

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

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

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.

Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.

I am compelled, because of my faith, to have compassion for the weak and vulnerable in our midst.

We must not only preach the doctrine of human rights, we must learn how actually to be our brother’s keeper.

We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth

Your government is still on the same side of the street as the Good Samaritan and not those who pass by on the other side.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

If I saw someone in need and I did nothing, I'd be defacing my own humanity.

I want to be able to serve people. For that it's important that I'm with them, among them and working for them.

If you see a woman who is struggling with bags or looks struggling in general, help her. Don't leave her vulnerable to someone else.

We should be with people who are in need.

My faith motivates me to really try to work on behalf of and advocate for those who are least able to advocate for themselves.

It takes us many years to learn that the passion for justice and the welfare of all, once it has been aroused, is the deepest one in moral life.

If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.

To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself

The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.