The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow human beings.

Related:

• Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings,
  no matter how great the disparity. To withhold your...
• Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men,
  with understanding sufficient for their stations. ...
• Bacteria acts more intelligent than
  human...
• America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery;
  first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our...
• Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs
  but how to remain human in the skyscrapers...
• No clap of thunder in a fair frosty day could more astonish the world than our declaration of war against Holland in 1672.
  Sir William Temple (1628-1699) -- Memoirs, Vol. ii...
• A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent,
  like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of...
• It is inconceivable that a judicious observer from another solar system would see in our species -
  which has tended to be cruel, destructive, wasteful...
• We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
  William Hazlitt, "On Cant and...