The absence of empathy is the embodiment of evil

“One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient.”

— Charles M. Blow

Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all…

— Bell Hooks

I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.

— John Connolly

“I vaguely remembered hearing psychologists say there was a preponderance of psychopaths at the top—in the corporate and political worlds—a clinical absence of empathy…

— Jon Ronson

Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad, joy and…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, they think it is better…

— Orson Scott Card

“. . . there was something that Isabel had said that always stuck in his mind. Remember what you have and the other person…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth (Niels Bohr)." By this,…

— Neil Postman

“But the point is, when the writer turns to address the reader, he or she must not only speak to me—naively dazzled and wholly…

— Samuel R. Delany

Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a…

— Henry Miller

...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all…

— Alfonso Garcia Robles

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of…

— Herbert Hoover

Light to me is perhaps the most profound truth in the universe. My thinking has been deeply affected by the belief everything is some…

— Wynn Bullock

Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

— Annie Besant

“A mirror has a clean light that reflects everything as it is. It symbolizes the stainless mind of the kami, and at the same…

— Sokyo Ono