Empathy Quote by Robert M. Sapolsky

Disgust and shame are inherently hierarchical; they set up ranks and orders of human beings. They are also inherently connected with restrictions on liberty…

— Martha Nussbaum

Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.

— Martha Nussbaum

“While this book makes a similar if more modest claim for the social significance of its own fundamentally ambivalent “sentiments of disenchantment” (an ambivalence…

— Sianne Ngai

Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations

— Jenny Holzer

“Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like favor, to those most deserving of it”

— Cassandra Clare

“this observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: "Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization.”

— Winifred Gallagher

“Today we recognize that the emotion of disgust evolved as an unconscious defense against biological contamination.”

— Steven Pinker

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust...

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Shame, as an emotion, has a core meaning, in relating individuals to wider social groups and norms -- real or imagined.”

— Peter N. Stearns

“at that moment experienced the painful internal feeling of that peculiar spedes of shame, which well-constructed minds feel when they see others express a…

— Walter Scott

“Xenophobia doesn't always look like a monument of shame. It doesn't always look like ridicule and jeering. It looks like a room full of…

— Sung Yim

“Hence while disgust is always disgust toward, in the same way that envy is envy of—whereas it makes no sense to speak of stuplimity…

— Sianne Ngai