Quotes About Empathy

I'm a very caring and loving person and I would defend anybody's honor who's been violated.

I pray that people will stand by women who have been violated and victimized.

If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.

The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.

Yes, I am very unhappy, extremely anguished at human rights violations against Kashmiris in India or against Rohingyas in Burma or, for that matter, Christians in Orissa; but obviously, I am going to be more concerned of violations taking place in my own house because I am closer to the people who I live with. I have more passion for them.

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

In this dangerous world that we live in, where hatred and violence and natural disasters sometimes collide to almost overwhelm us, we each can help in some way.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.

Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous.

I don't support violence and I don't support negative energy. I don't support people putting other people down.

We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more misunderstanding, and we don't need no more violence. We need the people to see each other and know of each other, feel each other, touch each other, share with each other, and change hearts with each other.

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.

No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

Disgust is a very powerful tool for bringing about crowd violence. If a group can be dehumanized and made into the Other, the 'them,' to treat that group horribly is made much easier.

I am just back from South Sudan, one of the world's most fragile nations. For years, I have been moved by the kind people who maintain hope that they will live to see peace. My heart has ached for them, as they have endured pain and violence that make such hope feel out of reach.

I think violence can never be justified.

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

I just don't believe in joking about violence anymore.

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.