Quotes for All
I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy. G. M Gilbert
Even worse than seeing women’s privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy. Emma Watson
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. Elie Wiesel
People with antisocial personality disorders aren’t automatically bad – they simply approach the world with a more ruthless set of lenses. The lack of empathy or very weak empathy and the ability to read other people’s weak spots can be a flammable combination when you get in the way of something they want. But they … Read more
I am truly passionate and concerned about the lack of empathy that people show towards one another. David Cross
APD is primarily defined as a lack of empathy,’ I said. I’d looked it up too, a few months ago. Empathy is what allows people to interpret emotion, the same way ears interpret sounds; without it you become emotionally deaf. ‘It means I don’t connect emotionally with other people. I wondered if he was going … Read more
I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just – terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil. Evil is the willingness to do damage to the other; its maximal expression is murder, but it includes a great deal of subtle and not-so-subtle injuries as it advances to that extreme. Evil … Read more
When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with … Read more
All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement. Billy Graham
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. Annie Lennox