Quotes About Empathy

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

Peace is more than just absence of war. It is rather a state in which no people of any country, in fact no group of people of any kind live in fear or in need.

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on

My fans are the best. I mean if there was a war, I think they'd definitely win just because they'd kill them with kindness.

If the dead could speak there would be no more war.

We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.

And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I'm not narrating a particular story. I'm just addressing experiences.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.

Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble. What we need is love To guide and protect us on. If you hope good down from above, Help the weak if you are strong now.

It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.

When a man is able to take abuse with a smile, he is worthy to become a leader.

I'm ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.

When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

the better angels of our nature

The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.