Conscience in Revolt: Sophie Scholl on Suffering, Strength, and the Deepest Wellspring of Courage

Sympathy is often difficult and soon becomes hollow if one feels no pain oneself.

To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart thats what life is all about, thats its task, the young Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote in an existential exhale of a letter to his brother hours after his death sentence was repealed; in 1849, still in his twenties, Dostoyevsky had been arrested and sentenced to death for...