The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion

Corporatism trying to redeem itself through charity is akin to a serial killer offering to pay a fine for his crimes.

Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It’s a shame that compassion doesn’t.

When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are almost unendurably irritating to the other. Work on that. Bring fully into the consciousness of your patient that particular lift of his mother's eyebrows which he learned to dislike in the nursery, and let him think how much he dislikes it. Let him assume that she knows how annoying it is and does it to annoy - if you know your job he will not notice the immense improbability of the assumption. And, of course, never let him suspect that he has tones and looks which similarly annoy her. As he cannot see or hear himself, this easily managed.

The house that does not comfort the needy is worthy of naught but destruction.

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.