toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.
Dorothee SolleDeath is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.
Dorothee SolleTo take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion is one of those names.
Dorothee SolleIf my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.
Dorothee SolleThe more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal suffering only in the way our society has taught him - through illusion, minimization, suppression, apathy - will deal with societal suffering in the same way.
Dorothee Solle