“And anyone with a humanistic sensibility cares about you, not in the sense of feeling your pain – human empathy is too feeble to spread itself across billions of strangers – but in the sense of realizing that your existence is cosmically no less important than theirs, and that we all have a responsibility to use the laws of the universe to enhance the conditions in which we all can flourish.”

“And anyone with a humanistic sensibility cares about you, not in the sense of feeling your pain – human empathy is too feeble to spread itself across billions of strangers – but in the sense of realizing that your existence is cosmically no less important than theirs, and that we all have a responsibility to use the laws of the universe to enhance the conditions in which we all can flourish.”

— Steven Pinker