Quotes About Empathy

for all the lip service that the social justice warriors give to 'diversity,' they don't actually care about one of the most fundamental forms of diversity – neurodiversity.

Wir alle sind Narren, es hat keiner das Recht, einem andern seine eigentümliche Narrheit aufzudringen. - Jeder muss in seiner Art genießen können, jedoch so, dass keiner auf Unkosten eines andern genießen oder ihn in seinem eigentümlichen Genuss stören darf.

Ich hab es satt; wozu sollen wir Menschen miteinander kämpfen? Wir sollten uns nebeneinandersetzen und Ruhe haben. Es wurde ein Fehler gemacht, wie wir geschaffen wurden; es fehlt uns etwas, ich habe keinen Namen dafür - aber wir werden es einander nicht aus den Eingeweiden herauswühlen, was sollen wir uns drum die Leiber aufbrechen?

East and West, as well as North and South, need each other. Our species can no longer afford to be self-divided. Our future depends on whether we as individuals and as societies can learn - quickly - from the experiences of the different branches of our single human family, and discover how to live in harmony with one another.

Since one never can absolutely know another, as this would mean knowledge of every particular thought and feeling; since we must rather form a conception of a personal unity out of the fragments of another person in which alone he is accessible to us, the unity so formed necessarily depends upon that portion of the Other which our standpoint toward him permits us to see.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity.

El hombre es civilizado en la medida que comprende a un gato.

No, really: I can't fight, I never could. I can't bring myself to dislike anyone enough.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

I don't want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I might want to kill.

The man or woman who feels strong enough for two, seeks for every other quality in a partner than strength.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends.

It is the people who hate poverty, not those who sympathize with it, who will put an end to it.

There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it... and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.

PICKERING [in good-humored remonstrance] Does it occur to you, Higgins, that the girl has some feelings? HIGGINS [looking critically at her] Oh no, I don't think so. Not any feelings that we need bother about. [Cheerily] Have you, Eliza? LIZA. I got my feelings same as anyone else.

El gran secreto, Elisa, no consiste en tener buenos o malos modales o cualquier clase particular de modales, sino en tratar del mismo modo a todas las almas hermanas; en una palabra: hay que portarse como si uno estuviese en el cielo, donde no hay vagones de tercera ni reservados, y en donde un alma es tanto como la otra. ELISA

She had learned from Jack, much to her surprise, that she could not make her face express anger or scorn by merely feeling angry or scornful.

If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.