Lack Of Empathy Quotes

• Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.

  Temple Grandin

  Baseball, Children, School

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• 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

  Men, Thinking, Evil

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• Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

  Annie Lennox

  Compassion, Empathy, Brutality

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• We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what's wrong before telling them they are wrong.

  Simon Sinek

  Trying, Caring For Others, Criticize

  Twitter post from Aug 13, 2013

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• I’ve made my life’s work spotting assholes. And you know, I think it’s harder now than ever before because there’s so many socially acceptable ways to exhibit a pathological lack of empathy.

  Merrill Markoe

  Thinking, Empathy, Way

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• I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there is a steady decline in the willingness to be truly generous, and by that I don't mean monetary generosity, but friendship and sympathy for others.

  J. K. Rowling

  Believe, Mean, Generosity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

  Mehmet Oz

  Opposites, Empathy, Calmness

  "Q&A with Mehmet Oz: Don’t Let the Finance Crisis Become a Health Crisis". Interview with Anthony Tjan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2007.

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• The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Love, Hate, Anime

  Quoted in U.S. News and World Report, 27 Oct. 1986

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• Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Life, Strength, Sympathy

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• 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 acts reduce the other to an object, a being to its component parts, and obliterate subjectivity. Evil's breeding ground is a lack of empathy.

  C.E. Morgan

  Thinking, Expression, Opposites

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

  Billy Graham

  Life, Sympathy, Encouraging

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.119, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I hope they're present in their lives and feel some kind of empathy. I think a lot of the mistakes that have been made in the world have been through a lack of empathy. If you can identify with someone else and empathise with someone else, then activism is a short step away, she explained in an interview with Parade.

  Susan Sarandon

  Mistake, Thinking, Empathy

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• ...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

  Heinz Kohut

  Sympathy, Men, Compassion

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  The more you know the less you need to say.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 30, 2017

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• I am truly passionate and concerned about the lack of empathy that people show towards one another.

  David Cross

  People, Empathy, Passionate

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Mlm, Fearless, Tao Te Ching

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.174, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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 aren't a different species. They're a part of our spectrum.

  Eden Robinson

  People, Empathy, Personality

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.

  Marya Mannes

  Sex, War, Compassion

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• 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

  Reading, Media, Empathy

  Twitter post from Sep 01, 2014

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• Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant talk about them openly - if we get attacked for it then this is an anti-empathetic movement and therefore it cannot complain about a lack of empathy.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Empathy, Political, Prejudice

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• Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.

  Gary Bauer

  Powerful, Rights, Support

  FaceBook post by Gary L. Bauer from Apr 08, 2010

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• The more you know the less you talk.

  A. R. Rahman

  Mlm, Tao Te Ching, Monk

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• The more you know, the less you carry

  Mors Kochanski

  Mlm, Tao Te Ching, Monk

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• The more you know the less you understand.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Mlm, Tao Te Ching

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• Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

  Gary Bauer

  Believe, Government, Empathy

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