“If you don't feel comfortable with the Red Cross, anything that you feel comfortable sending money to -- that you know is going to get to the hurricane victims -- send money. Because that's what you can do to help. And a lot of prayers. Lots of prayers.” IfsKnowsFeelsHelpingCan DoPrayerComfortComfortableRedCrossesVictimHurricanesRed Cross Author:Tim McGraw
“Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal to escape, his calmness in the face of death , and his contention that the perpetrator of injustice injures himself more than his victim, all fitted in perfectly with Stoic teaching. So did his indifference to heat and cold, his plainness in matters of food and dress, and his complete independence of all bodily comforts.” MatterFacesAttitudeTeachingColdComfortDressesVictimIndependenceInjusticeSaintTrialsChiefsIndifferenceHeatCalmnessRefusalContentionStoicPerpetratorsPlainnessHeat And Cold Book:History of Western Philosophy Source: History of Western Philosophy
“Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go home and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should ever become the victims of this evil habit, you might carry them out to Greenwood and put them down in the last slumber, waiting for the flowers of spring to come over the grave-sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God hath a balm for such a Wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulcher?” IfsShouldChildrenSoulHomeMightLastsEvilWaitingSweetFlowerGrewPrayingHabitComfortSpringOur ChildrenDown AndVictimWineBonesWoundsGravesYour ChildrenImmortalMarchResurrectionProphecyDrunkennessPraying To GodSlumberDrunkardsDrummingImmortal SoulIntemperance Author:Thomas De Witt Talmage
“Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsWritingMatterRealitySocialLosesSimplePovertyStrangeComfortSightVictimComplexesPhenomenonFadesElusiveParadoxicalPersonal MatterSimple And Complex Author:Dorothy Day
“The recovery movementis not primarily addressed to people who always knew about their sexual victimization. Its main intendedaudience is women who aren't at all sure that they were molested, and its purpose is to convince them of that face and embolden them to act upon it. As for genuine victims, the comfort they are proffered may look attractive at first, but it is of debatable long value.” PeopleFirstsLooksMayLongFacesPurposeValuesComfortAbuseVictimGenuineRecoveryAttractiveConvinceVictimization Author:Frederick Crews
“There is a real comfort with the position of the victim, which can either result in true empathy or deep paranoia.” RealResultsPositionComfortEmpathyVictimParanoia Author:Jill Soloway
“Japan admitted the Imperial Army ordered the building of these brothels and the trafficking of the women. And now that it's been 70 years, there are only 46 remaining comfort women still alive in South Korea. So also in this deal, Japan is going to pay 1 billion yen - that's about 8 million U.S. dollars - to provide social services and health care to the surviving victims.” YearsStillsCareSocialDealsPayMillionsAliveBuildingComfortArmyVictimDollarsSouthBillionsHealth CareJapanSurvivingKoreaSocial ServiceTraffickingBrothelsSouth Korea Author:Elise Hu
“And that said, this [issues of comfort women] is important for reopening a conversation in both Japan and in Korea and on their respective understandings of history. Policymakers are going to be trumpeting this deal, but you know, as of now, we just don't know whether the women themselves who are actually victims will think this agreement is enough.” ThinkingKnowsSaidImportantEnoughUnderstandingDealsIssuesComfortConversationVictimJapanAgreementKorea Author:Elise Hu
“For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.” EnergyBornSacrificeComfortTravelVictimVicesTraveller Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley