Quotes About Empathy

It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!

Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It's a lot worse than 'too bad.' It's against everything decent and natural.

You're surrounded by people in the waking period, and you feel their eyes and their hopes on you. You can't stand up under it. In the sleep period, you're free.

Without the interplay of human against human, the chief interest in life is gone; most of the intellectual values are gone; most of the reason for living is gone.

But what could I want with riches? The true wealth is the love of one's people.

It's a weakness of mine-I want people to understand me.

George Weston, after all was only a man—poor thing—and his wife made full use of every device which a clumsier and more scrupulous sex has learned, with reason and futility, to fear.

But I still can't quite grasp what you're telling me. I find it impossible to believe that there would be such unreasoning feeling against harmless people." Amaryl said bitterly, "That's because you've never had any occasion to interest yourself in such things. It can all pass right under your nose and you wouldn't smell a thing because it doesn't affect you.

Baley needed a friend and he was in no mood to cavil at the fact that a gear replaced a blood vessel in this particular one.

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

I find it impossible to believe that there would be such unreasoning feeling against harmless people." Amaryl said bitterly, "That's because you've never had any occasion to interest yourself in such things. It can all pass right under your nose and you wouldn't smell a thing because it doesn't affect you.

Bliss approached him slowly, placed her hand on his shoulder. "Pel, I—I think well of you." Pelorat looked away. "It's all right, Bliss. You needn't be kind." "I'm not being kind, Pel. I think—very well of you.

It's just that old people always think young people haven't really learned about love; and young people think that old people have forgotten about love; and, you know, they're both wrong.

Even as though dearest with th en humble and defenseless, thus shalt though be dealt with.

Él podía ser un extranjero, pero un hombre siempre es un hombre.

there is something even higher than the justice which you have been filled with. There is a human impulse known as mercy; a human act known as forgiveness." "I am not acquainted with those words, partner Elijah." "I know," muttered Baley. "I know.

Pelorat sighed. "I will never understand people." "There's nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We're in no way different ourselves.

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself—no offense intended.

I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification—even by other human beings. It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there.

Who would bother hating, if it had to be reasoned out into sensibleness first?

Todo aquello era un gran aliciente en la vida de Harlan. Tenía alguien con quien hablar, alguien con quien podía discutir su vida, sus preocupaciones y sus pensamientos. Era como si ella fuese una parte de él mismo, pero una parte diferente, con la que necesitaba comunicarse hablando, en vez de pensar a solas.

No sé cómo siente interiormente pero tampoco sé cómo sientes tú. Cuando uno habla con él se da cuenta de que reacciona a las distintas abstracciones como tú y como yo, ¿qué otra cosa puede importar? ¿Qué más se puede pedir si alguien reacciona como uno mismo?

I grew up haphazard, wounded and tortured in mind, full of self-pity and hatred of others.

El Aprendiz tartamudeó: —Brinsley Sheridan Cooper, del Setenta y ocho, señor. Harlan casi experimentó cierta simpatía por el muchacho. Solo diecisiete Siglos de distancia del suyo propio. Eran casi unos vecinos en el Tiempo.