Quotes About Empathy

O mundo pode identificar-se com um mártir desamparado. Mas seis milhões de judeus foram perseguidos e assassinados na Alemanha e o mundo fica perturbado intelectualmente, mas emocionalmente calmo, tratando de sua própria vida, porque, ora, quem pode identificar-se com seis milhões de mortos?

There is no deeper wound than humiliation. The momentary glory we may feel in humiliating someone is short-lived compared to the damage we cause.

Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.

The wrecked mess of flesh had to hurt like hell and I was just starting to feel a little sympathy for Kujima when some distant corner of my brain sent me a reminder that he'd shot me, beaten me and was about to light me on fire.

I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.

Janet was a tower of strength to me during the miserable time of uncertainty that preceded the divorce. She never pushed me; never urged me to agree to anything foolish in order to hasten the divorce; seemed perfectly willing to continue our irregular arrangement for the rest of our lives. If Gertrude was making life harder for me, Janet was making it easier to an even greater extent.

All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy ... could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.

You just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.

A pig won't meet another pig halfway, but a man will meet a man.

Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul, without feelings. However, anyone who has ever lived with an animal--be it a dog, a bird, or even a mouse--knows that this theory is a brazen lie, invented to justify cruelty.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

And this the burthen of his songForever used to be,"I care for nobody, not I,If no one cares for me."

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.

The man who wants to make me change my religion surely does so only because he would not change his, even if forced: he thinks it strange, then, that I do not do something he would not do himself perhaps for the whole world." Montesquieu

At the start of every conversation ask yourself what can I give, not what can I take.

Lead how you like to be led.

There is as much to be learned from a man with little, as there is from a man with much.

To give support should be commonplace in our society, not to be asked for.

But, children, you should never letSuch angry passions rise;Your little hands were never madeTo tear each other's eyes.

Einen Menschen zu lieben, wie er ist, das ist leicht. Schwer ist es einen Menschen so zu lieben wie er nicht ist. In einem Menschen all das zu sehen, was er sein könnte, aber noch nicht sein kann.

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

We only have what we give.