Quotes About Empathy

It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.

Violence on the community stops when the soul matures.

I don't believe in violence against women.

There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

I ain't never liked violence.

Violence is not funny.

How do we stop violence, looting, and riots? The way that we stop that is by making sure that people have the things that they need to thrive.

It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.

I don't like any art form barraged in violence or hurt.

I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

One should not evoke violence by acting fearful.

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

When I was Surgeon General, I spent a lot of time talking to people in living rooms and town halls all across the country, and one of the things I started to notice was that behind many of the stories of addiction, violence, depression and anxiety were threads of loneliness.

Violence does not contribute to anything.

Far too many LGBTQ individuals are the victims of violence and hatred, and we must all fight together to ensure that no one is erased or marginalized because of how they identify or who they love.

I think it's very easy to disgust the reader with violence on the page - that's incredibly easy - but it's far harder to make a reader care about a character.

In entrepreneurial circles, it's clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination - or whatever you want to label it - is another category where we need to pay attention to disruption before it changes the world in ways we don't want it to.

I'm not keen on films which depict a lot of violence.

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.