Quotes About Empathy

Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.

It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.

I wanted to go amongst gangbangers, to understand this war they were fighting amongst each other. I wanted to document it, [also] to show the human side of it.

If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict.

I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

I'm sure if you were a Bosnian during the war, you would wish to kill Serbs. Just because it is the opposite of you and because they're aggressors. And also, it happens to me when I get attacked.

Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.

Ours is a nation that does not seek revenge.

War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.

It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.

I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred.

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.

The only way to win the war is to move people's hearts and minds.

In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.