This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Elie Wiesel, fully Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel
Some religious people abolish hatred because they’re religious. Others are fanatical, and they invoke hatred because they are religious. I believe that religion could be a marvelous way of humanizing society. Others believe that religion is here to serve fanatics, to punish, to chastise, to torture, to torment.
Lucie Campbell, fully Lucie Eddie Campbell-Williams
To win, one must be big enough to see the worth in others, big enough to cheer when others score.
In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self, and should therefore refrain from inflicting upon others such injury as would appear undesirable to us if inflicted upon ourselves.
David Bohm, fully David Joseph Bohm
A key difference between a dialogue and an ordinary discussion is that, within the latter people usually hold relatively fixed positions and argue in favor of their views as they try to convince others to change. At best this may produce agreement or compromise, but it does not give rise to anything creative.
Change | Discussion | People |
Judging others takes a great deal of energy and, without exception, pulls you away from where you want to be.
Energy |
Marva Collins, born Marva Delores Nettles
Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.
Determination | Perseverance | Thinking | Will | World |
Hard as it is for us to escape the effects of our own feelings, nobody seems to have difficulty in rejecting the feelings of others as merely subjective and vulnerable to interference from the demons of self-deception and self-delusion.
Delusion | Difficulty | Feelings | Self | Self-deception |
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
World |
The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
Altruists have a particular perspective in which all mankind is connected through a common humanity, in which each individual is linked to all others and to a world in which all living beings are entitled to a certain humane treatment merely by virtue of being alive.