Ignorance of Suffering Quotes

He is stern and severe—with fixed principles of duty which nothing on earth will make him change; very clever I do not think him, and his mind is an uncivilized one; his education has been neglected; politics and military concerns are the only things he takes great interest in; the arts and all softer occupations he is insensible to, but he is sincere, I am certain, sincere even in his most despotic acts, from a sense that that is the only way to govern; he is not, I am sure, aware of the dreadful cases of individual misery which he so often causes, for I can see by various instances that he is kept in utter ignorance of many things, which his people carry out in most corrupt ways, while he thinks that he is extremely just.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

I can't stand people who say they've got 'Africa fatigue.'

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.