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Quotes About Empathy

How many people, I wonder, can be penned up and tormented—reeducated—before it begins to matter to the majority of Americans? How does this penning people up look to other countries? Do they know? Would they care?
~ Octavia E. Butler
No one is who we think they are," I said. "That's what we get for not being telepathic.
~ Octavia E. Butler
There are times when I wish I believed in hell—other than the hells we make for one another, I mean.
~ Octavia E. Butler
We dull your natural fear of strangers and of difference. We keep you from injuring or killing us or yourselves.
~ Octavia E. Butler
If you can think of ways to entertain them and teach them at the same time, you'll get your information out. And all without making anyone look down." "Look down … ?" "Into the abyss, Daughter.
~ Octavia E. Butler
If God is Change, then... then who loves us? Who cares about us? Who cares for us?" "We care for one another," I said. "We care for ourselves and one another.
~ Octavia E. Butler
In spite of your loss and pain, you aren't alone. You still have people who care about you and want you to be all right. You still have family.
~ Octavia E. Butler
She seemed to be able to turn the accent on and off. She tended to turn it on for comforting people, and for threatening to kill them.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Kevin, you don't have to beat people to treat them brutally." "Wait a minute," he said. "I'm not minimizing the wrong that's being done here. I just …" "Yes you are. You don't mean to be, but you are.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Kevin, você não precisa bater nas pessoas para tratá-las com brutalidade.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Per me i cadaveri sono disgustosi. Puzzano e se sono lì da un po' sono pieni di vermi. Ma in fondo che cosa importa? Sono morti. Non soffrono più e se non ti piacevano quando erano vivi, perché turbarsi tanto ora che sono morti? Cory è rimasta sconvolta. Se la prende con me perché condivido il dolore dei vivi, ma lei cerca di condividerlo con i morti.
~ Octavia E. Butler
We walk the highways and scrounge and scavenge and ask for work, and all of that reminds people that what's happened to us can happen to them. They don't like to think about stuff like that, so they get mad at us. They make the cops arrest us or run us out of town.
~ Octavia E. Butler
She could not make herself ask whether he would be conscious and aware during these experiments. She hoped he would be.
~ Octavia E. Butler
no matter what Dad thinks or wants or wishes. I feel what I see others feeling or what I believe they feel. Hyperempathy is what the doctors call an "organic delusional syndrome.
~ Octavia E. Butler
L'avevo sentito morire e non ero morta. Avevo sentito il suo dolore come se fosse un essere umano, la sua vita divampare e spegnersi, eppure ero ancora viva.
~ Octavia E. Butler
How many people, I wonder, can be penned up and tormented—reeducated—before it begins to matter to the majority of Americans? How does this penning people up look to other countries?
~ Octavia E. Butler
Attention : A la guerre Comme en temps de paix, L'égoïsme aveugle Fait plus de victimes Que tous les autres fléaux Semence de la Terre : le Livre des Vivants
~ Octavia E. Butler
even people who loved me could demand more of me than I could give-and expect their demands to be met simply because I owed them.
~ Octavia E. Butler
La mia 'freddezza' lo turbava, ma lui non era un empatico e non capiva che per me il dolore era il male e la morte la fine del dolore. Per quel che mi riguardava, nessun verso della Bibbia poteva cambiare questa verità. Harry non capiva l'empatia, ma infondo perché avrebbe dovuto? La maggior parte della gente ne sapeva poco o niente.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Taking care of other people can be a good cure for nightmares like yours and maybe hers.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I couldn't move her. She was afraid, and that made her defensive.
~ Octavia E. Butler
This world would be better if people lived according to the teachings of almost any religion.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I can take a lot of pain without falling apart. I've had to learn to do that. But it was hard, today, to keep peddling and keep up with the others when just about everyone I saw made me feel worse and worse. My
~ Octavia E. Butler
No one should travel alone in this world.
~ Octavia E. Butler