Quotes About Empathy

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

The easiest way to forget about the people who are dying in wars right now is to close our eyes and ears! And this is also the ugliest and the vilest way!

The casualty of war is our disappearing humanity.

What makes a human being want to kill another who has done him no personal harm? Patriotism.

In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being.

But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of back-breaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side.

When every heart is filled with peace and every mind is searching for peace, how can there be war?

Love' is the only weapon I have, I will defend with love, I will attack with love.

Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

Too much war, hatred and fear in the world.Desperately needed: More art, love and poetry.

This world needs much more kissing and far less fighting.

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

War is not nice.

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go." "The War Poems

Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another.

There comes a time for each of us when we realize the truth about the enemy. Which is that he is not an idea, or some faceless demon. He is a man. And every man is much like ourselves.

[The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.

Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.