This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm
All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.
Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm
Reason is man’s faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man’s ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.
Ability | Contradiction | Intelligence | Reason | World |
I know that theater people often have very simplistic view of politics and tend to express very black and white patriotic sentiments but perhaps that is because we know the value of illusion, how it can help strengthen the weak, and stimulate the weary
Fred Rogers, "Mister Rogers," born Frederick McFeely Rogers
At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision us to continue against all odds. Life is for service.
Growth | Heart | Life | Life | Spirit | Universe | Vision | Wants | Intellect |
Franklin D. Roosevelt, fully Franklin Delano Roosevelt, aka FDR
Charity literally translated from the original means love, the love that understands, that does not merely share the wealth of the giver, but in true sympathy and wisdom helps men to help themselves.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, fully Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.
Fred Rogers, "Mister Rogers," born Frederick McFeely Rogers
We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.
George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
Business | Comfort | Life | Life | Thought | Business | Thought |
Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Man is much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.
Contempt |
To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.
George Marshall, fully George Catlett Marshall, Jr.
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist. Such assistance, I am convinced, must not be on a piecemeal basis as various crises develop. Any assistance that this Government may render in the future should provide a cure rather than a mere palliative. Any government that is willing to assist in the task of recovery will find full cooperation, I am sure, on the part of the United States Government. Any government which maneuvers to block the recovery of other countries cannot expect help from us. Furthermore, governments, political parties or groups which seek to perpetuate human misery in order to profit therefrom politically or otherwise will encounter the opposition of the United States.
Doctrine | Future | Government | Opposition | Order | Policy | Purpose | Purpose | Will | World | Government |
There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.
Civilization | Contempt | Study | Will | World |
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.