Quotes About Empathy

All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds

One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.

Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.

Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

They walked as old friends walk, without often speaking, sharing the kind of silence that is not so much silence as a kind of still communication.

Sometimes you must seem to hurt something in order to do good for it.

I wanted to say something to make her feel better, but I didn't know what words could have that much magic.

all bullies got worse when you let them know they were hurting you.

This little kid pointed at me and said, 'You look disgusting!' That was the first time I thought maybe I did. I decided I'd better start eating. I'm just thankful that I made it through with relatively few scars.

People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around.

You can't do extraordinary things in the world if your spending time criticizing others because they don't look of behave the way you think they should

You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.

Any fool can love somebody who's perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn't stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they've hurt you.