Empathy Quote by Jonathan Balcombe

“To seek pleasure, to avoid pain, is the general line of action (some would say law) of the organic world. Without this quest of…

— Peter Kropotkin

The commendable conduct of man is shown by his discriminate treatment of merits and sympathetic regard for pleasure and pain, profit and loss of…

— Dayananda Saraswati

The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

— David Foster Wallace

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

— Samuel Johnson

Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.

— Pope Pius XII

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

— Anonymous

Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.

— Pema Chodron

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is…

— Honore de Balzac

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling…

— Tertullian

I don’t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It’s funny the ways we try to punish…

— Deb Caletti

“If we harm someone else, we’re inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us to be…

— Sharon Salzberg