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Quotes About Empathy

You must become your enemy to truly understand him.
~ Felix O. Hartmann, Dark Age
With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it.
~ Henry V. O'Neil, CHOP Line
In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch
Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world
~ Munia Khan
There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?
~ Jay Woodman
When the war's over, I'll be kind.
~ Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
Nothing doth worse become a man (I will not say a Christian man) than war.
~ Erasmus, Against War
You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don't want the accountability of starting it.
~ Shannon L. Alder
People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had, she said quietly, staring into the embers. they don't know what it was like, not being in a camp.
~ Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice
Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.
~ Charles S. Weinblatt
The best gift that we can give to our enemy is not war, but forgiveness and peace.
~ Debasish Mridha
War or violence never can destroy enemies, only forgiveness can do that.
~ Debasish Mridha
3. War Peace & Action - 3B.02 LOVE & PEACEHatred goes not by hatred, Violence not by violence, Disappear hatred and violence, By love, understanding, non-violence.[241] - 3B
~ Munindra Misra, Eddies of Life
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord's bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me.
~ Jay Grewal, A Slave to Want
A man could love only what he respected, not pitied.
~ Ninotchka Rosca, State of War
Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them.
~ Tom Greer
Humans without humanity, A world of dread and fear for eternity.
~ Mouloud Benzadi
Without empathy, there'd be no harmony in diversity
~ Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso
When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them tostop fighting?
~ Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
I was too far away to hear what was said but I saw in Val's eyes the same fear that I had once known and could well guess at Lucas' unthinking remark.
~ Julia Lee Dean
Boys, at war, so far away, will naturally droop, both in body and mind, from lack of a particular girl's snuggling and cuddling.
~ Ernest Vincent Wright, Gadsby
Because if I ever get nailed, I don't want you running out to get the same medicine. Believe me, if it's you lying out there, I'm gonna make sure you're alive before I go.
~ Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND THANK EVERYONE... WHO TRIES... TO BRING SMILE BACK... TO THIS WOMAN
~ Widad Akreyi