Quotes About Empathy

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact in suffering the animals are our equals.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.

Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.

By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed, it would eliminate starvation and malnutrition from this planet. Animal Liberation is Human Liberation too.

A humanist is a person who can say: I am human, nothing written down is strange to me.

When I really feel like dancing, I want someone who knows how to lead.

Es gibt mir das Gefühl, nicht allein zu sein, wenn ich nachts aufwache." "Du bist nicht allein." "Nein", sagte Agnes, "jetzt nicht.

suggesting that, though their situation might be strange , there was nothing new about suffering .

a personal relationship in an impersonal world

I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg.

You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.

If people are forced to suppress the emotion of love for their fellow human beings then they certainly can't have love for anything else, including God.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

At times, when we had spent some time in a particular location and word had spread about our presence, people approached us for interviews. Surprisingly, these were often very poor or vulnerable people, typically women and frequently widows, who wanted someone to listen to their story, just for once. These were some of the most amazing conversations we had.

Thats the thing about pain, it demands to be felt

Pain demands to be felt.

It's really kind of… well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know 'em. We're all beautiful.

Psychopathy's no disorder in those shoes, eh? Just a survival strategy.

I love other creatures almost as much as I hate people

WHY SHOULD MAN EXPECT HIS PRAYER FOR MERCY TO BE HEARD BY WHAT IS ABOVE HIM WHEN HE SHOWS NO MERCY TO WHAT IS UNDER HIM? —Pierre Troubetzkoy

If there's one thing I'm the world's greatest expert on, it's how it feels to be me. And

never humanize your victims. It shouldn't have been such an issue when dealing with methane-breathing medusae.

This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.