Empathy Quote by Tim Kreider

“Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen enemy, tearing at our…

— r.a. salvatore

“The human route to sympathy or empathy is a clumsy one but it's all we've got. To understand the consequences of our actions we…

— Anonymous

“Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen enemy, cutting at…

— R.A. Salvatore

“I've also learned that the more we diminish our own pain, or rank it compared to what others have survived, the less empathic we…

— Brené Brown

“It's the discomforting end of humankind's bargain with consciousness. We empathize with other beings and imagine we feel their pain. Either the empathy binds…

— Peter Steinhart

“For the ignorant, pain is a curse, but for the wise, it is a blessed moment for reinforcing one's inner goodness and morality.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well…

— Susan Sontag

“In these meetings of all sorts, every counsel, in proportion as it is daring and violent and perfidious, is taken for the mark of…

— Edmund Burke

“We cannot achieve personal enlightenment – a clarification of our souls – until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life includes witnessing…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“[Justice] demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of putting oneself…

— Hannah Arendt

The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims while allowing…

— Mira Sorvino

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

— Charles M. Blow