It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.
H. G. WellsWhy had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges him for ever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, to risk an even a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me that there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made to go about safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. ... against his interest, against his happiness, he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things. Some force not himself impels him, and he must go.
H. G. WellsIn all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.
H. G. Wells