Against Empathy Quotes

#1. I'm really interested in the pleasure we get from stories and the pleasure we get from movies, and certainly the pleasure we get from virtual experiences. My complaint is against empathy as a moral guide. But as a source of pleasure, it can't be beat.

Paul Bloom

#2. empathy is taken for granted. When it is gone there is no protection against the wild inside of us.

P.M. Barnes

#3. In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

Erica Jong

#4. Even if I didn't have any empathy, she did, and that meant I could use it against her. Where logic failed, guilt might save the day.

Dan Wells

#5. Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It is very difficult, perhaps impossible, to be violent to someone we think of as an equal, someone we have empathy with, but it is very easy to abuse a thing

Jean Kilbourne

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

Paul Bloom

#7. Education, from Addams' perspective, must not merely make us more adept at defending ourselves against those with different agendas. Education should increase our powers of empathy and our ability to act in concert with others.

Michael S. Roth