"<p>Every time we encounter injustice or cruelty in life - a child is tortured, an animal is abused, a human being is humiliated or denied what is rightfully his by divine and human law - we are always haunted by the question: is it your right and duty to intervene, to intervene, to take on the ungrateful role of an unwelcome praetor in the turmoil of alien fates? Or go away, with a guilty conscience, but unharmed? Know that you have the right to interfere in the affairs of strangers and the world only so long as you, personally, without the interference of foreign men or authorities, can actually help where you see injustice, unfairness or cruelty. For he who, with justifiable indignation, passes on help to others, "calls" the attention of authority or philanthropists to what he has seen, is already making a "cause" out of human misery, is already taking a part between suffering and help, is already deceiving himself and the world. Be alone with human suffering and try to help to the best of your ability. If you can wipe the tears from a child's face, if you can relieve a sick horse, if you can give money that is yours, or clothes to a ragged man, or advice and action to help something, personally - then, only then, you have the right to intervene. But anyone who calls the police in such situations, or writes letters to the newspapers, or takes up collections for the needy, in short, makes a role out of the misery of others for themselves, is suspect. Your pain and misery are personal, and you can only help in person. Everything else is vanity.</p>"