For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
- Paul Farmer
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
- John D. Rockefeller
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
- Andrew Carnegie
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
- Warren Buffett
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
- Robert Kennedy
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
- C. S. Lewis
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
- Albert Schweitzer
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
- Albert Schweitzer
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
- Albert Schweitzer
One life you got to do what you should. One life, with each other, sisters, brothers. One life, but we're not the same - we get to carry each other.
- Bono
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
- Albert Einstein
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas Gandhi
We must become the change we want to see in the world.
- Mohandas Gandhi
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas Gandhi
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa