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6324 Individual quotes by 3344 unique authors

Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female… — Marilyn Frye
Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world through the magic… — Azar Nafisi
I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer… — Azar Nafisi
An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately… — Carl Rogers
I believe I know why it is satisfying to me to hear someone. When I can really hear someone, it puts me in touch with… — Carl Rogers
During empathy one is simply 'there for' the other individual, when experiencing their own feelings while listening to the other, i.e. during sympathy, the listener… — Enrico Caruso
Empathy in broadest sense refers to the reactions of one individual to the observed experiences of another — Unknown Author
What evidence is there that we've adequately empathized with the other person? First, when an individual realizes that everything going on within has received full… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among… — Thomas Nagel
On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective responsibility to confront… — Barack Obama
It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his… — Albert J. Nock
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual,… — Oscar Wilde
Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Tshikona is lwa-ha-masia-khali-i-tshi-vhila, "the time when people rush to the scene of the dance and leave their pots to boil over." Tshikona "makes sick people… — John Blacking
In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether it compensates the… — Ludwig von Mises
The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept… — Ludwig von Mises
The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself… — Ludwig von Mises
As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist. — Sitting Bull
We are not a monolithic group of individuals, not every single person believes the exact same thing. — Joseph Crowley
However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more… — St. Vincent
It ought to be considered a great misfortune, not only for individuals, but also for Houses and Congregations, to have everything in conformity with their… — St. Vincent
Each individual has their own opinions about whether war is an answer to any problems. Personally I think it's a waste of time, but I… — Damon Albarn
While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships,… — Emile Durkheim
It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on… — Emile Durkheim
Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interest… — George Stigler

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