Quotes About Empathy

when it comes to pleasuring women and conversing in the language of love, cunnilingus should be every man's native tongue.

În timp ce foarte mulÈ›i se temeau pentru soarta celor apropiaÈ›i, suferinÈ›a celorlalÈ›i nu mai conta aÈ™a de mult.

The road to Auschwitz was built by hate but paved with indifference

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle.

It's so much better to have sex with someone who's always available, knows what you want and who loves you more deeply than anyone else ever can. Yourself.

Najia can feel yts subdermal activators against her forearm. Not man not woman not both not neither. Nute. Another way of being human, speaking a phsyical language she does not understand. More alien to her than any man, any father, yet this body next to hers is loyal, tough, funny courageous, clever, kind, sensual, vulnerable. Sweet. Sexy. All you could wish in a friend of the soul. Or a lover.

but most of the time they keep companionable silence together, as close men do, and find they have communicated everything.

She wished she had Benji Dog back. At least he would have been something to talk to. No famulus. She felt very naked, as if she had slipped through the sustaining fingers of the Compassionate Society and had not been missed.

We measure our own humanity by how we respond to the unprogrammed, the unpredictable.

Dicen que la Luna es dura. No; la gente es dura. Siempre es la gente.

The sense of power, of human ability, was so strong. Many of the men cried. Men are so easily moved.

A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.

It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.

A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.

There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the idea that other minds were equally alive. It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding, above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal value. That was the only moral a story need have.

We judge others by their actions, but we judge ourselves by our intentions.

No one knows what women want!

the chimpanzee can't articulate his state of mind to us, or answer our questions about it. But then, for all of his physical differences, if he could talk he would be one of us. Nothing else he could do would place him more emphatically in the human camp, for it has been recognized since ancient times that language defines us as nothing else does.

Before you criticise someone, walk a mile in their shoes. If you still insist on criticising them, you'll have mike head start and they'll have no shoes.

The harsh truth that this is the only life we have should make us try and improve it for as many people as possible.

An apology is not the second way in.

Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time.

A lot of times I'd step out of my own zone as Scotty Appleton and tell Wesley or Chris or Judd how shit really would get said in the game. Subtle little things like gestures and looks. Things I lived firsthand, things I witnessed, I was able to add that into the performances.