No Empathy Quotes

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

I find that the monsters are usually the people that I have the most empathy for because they're the ones that are hurt the most. There's a reason why they're the monsters.

If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

There's something in everyone only they know.

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

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

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.

The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.

Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.

Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else's perspective.

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

I would like people to pay attention to the idea of rational empathy, and that as a society, we are walking down a path that's well-trodden throughout history.

I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

Some people naturally have a sense of empathy and an understanding of how to bring their followers to do things. They become great politicians.

The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.

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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

Other-oriented feelings congruent with the perceived welfare of another person.

In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated.

Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

Become the world's most thoughtful friend.

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want.

To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people... For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

Yehudi Menuhin was a citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color.

Many people today in the developed countries are so far removed from poverty and suffering and starvation that they lack empathy for the sufferings of others.

Think in terms of what's good for the other person and success will seek you out.

It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.

Look at the other side of things even if you know you'll never agree. It creates empathy.

Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.

And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.

When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

To Islamize doesn't make sense to me. But to center, but to have intellectual empathy and modesty - all these dimensions are important on how we look at truth.