“Be kind, be all sympathy,For each and every human beingIs forced to fight against himself.”
“The Imperial forces must keep their hands off, but they find that they can do much even so. Each sector is encouraged to be suspicious of its neighbors. Within each sector, economic and social classes are encouraged to wage a kind of war with each other. The result is that all over Trantor it is impossible for the people to take united action. Everywhere, the people would rather fight each other than make a common stand against the central tyranny and the Empire rules without having to exert force.”
“His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name.”
“When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.”
“We go on killing each other to no purpose! It is war waged by humanity against humanity, and it will only end when there's no one left to fight!”
“Ben Says: Help change our world by spreading kindness each and every day. It all helps to brighten humanity!Timothy PinaBullying Ben”