Quotes About Empathy

A terrible additional worry was the emergence of AIDS. I know I wasn't the only friend of George's who worried about him during that uncertain, frightening period.

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.

Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war.

After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.

One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.

I would like the whole world to be full of feminine qualities. Then only can wars disappear.

Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.

I have seen war ... I hate war.

We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars.

I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like.

I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.

Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.

The people who are slamming me have no idea about what it feels like to unjustly have a child killed in an insane war.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations.

War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

War is good for absolutely nothing, because no matter how far and wide apart we may live, we're all the same under the skin. We all want to live, laugh and love.

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.