No Empathy Quotes

Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.

I think his deepest quality is empathy.

What I mean by "empathy" is putting yourself in other people's shoes, feeling what they feel.

I think empathy is really important for pleasure.

Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people.

It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent.

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy.

When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy.

Because of empathy, we care more for, and devote far more resources to, someone who is familiar, from our country or our group, than a stranger.

By “empathy,” some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.

I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.

I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.

And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data.

I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time for your thoughts to simmer and evolve and build up nuance, depth and empathy.

Imagine what Ivanka Trump life has been like? She's been eaten alive by the media. I have empathy for that.

To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.

We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along...

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

Now, inventiveness and empathy, those qualities, if they're together in the same person, you've got an entrepreneurial genius. But they do tend to be slightly separate.

I don't think we're getting the empathy, and identifying with the situations that many African Americans experience. That's the problem with how the story is being reported.

Sympathy feels like a performative word, whereas empathy is human.

I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.

When scoring a film, empathy is the key. And it is just as important to use music to express the actors' emotions as it is to move the audience.

Sympathy is towards someone else, versus empathy, which is feeling like someone else.

I think your main draws are instinct, intuition and empathy... those things that you can't really practice.

You can be right or you can have empathy. You can't do both.

To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.

Without exception, empathy is always appropriate.

Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.

Fiction is empathy technology.

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

None of us can choose where we shall love.

I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so maybe I am similar to him in terms of that. I'm not sure what he thinks exactly.

I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.

Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another's needs creates empathy.

President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.

Bless you for your jealousy; it is a sign of empathy.

I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

I don't love the word "quirky." I think it's a word that's a catchall. It's a word that doesn't stand in empathy with the person, it stands in judgment of them. It's a very externalized word.

I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experience it, it can become one of the richest feelings they have ever had.

I couldn’t even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita’s sadness.

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.

Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery!