Top 68 No Empathy Quotes
#1. This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.
Alice Walker
#2. The first thing missing if you take a robot as a companion is alterity, the ability to see the world through the eyes of another.5 Without alterity, there can be no empathy.
Sherry Turkle
#3. It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.
Stewart Butterfield
#4. Sociopaths have no conscience. Narcissists have no empathy. Neither one thinks other people are real. Narcissists think other people are just ego food, tools or extensions of themselves.
Koren Zailckas
#5. He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
Ralph Fiennes
#6. The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.
Brimstone
#7. I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
Rachel Weisz
#8. Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the only one to suffer. Or that they're the only ones who like ice cream or take their kids on vacation.
Marjane Satrapi
#9. No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.
Haruki Murakami
#10. Until you have stood in another woman's stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in.
Shannon L. Alder
#11. Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#13. Courage gives us a voice and compassion gives us an ear. Without both, there is no opportunity for empathy and connection.
Brene Brown
#14. Kindness carries no price tag neither does it require making a purchase. A random act of kindness can change someone's life...choose to be kind always.
Kemi Sogunle
#15. Mono no aware, my son, is an empathy with the universe.
Ken Liu
#17. One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
John Ortberg
#18. If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.
Daniel Goleman
#19. There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.
Bryant McGill
#20. This is what differentiates sympathy from empathy. No matter how much I care for you, it's not until I recognize me in you and you in me that the veil of gauze is lifted on the world.
Jackson Galaxy
#21. Empathy is the accurate understanding of another person'ts internal experience. It has nothing to do with agreeing or disagreeing with that experience. Unlike sympathy, it makes no assumptions about how the other person is feeling.
Madeline Levine
#22. Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.
David Hanson
#23. No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious faith. But I learn it right there in the hallway: I cannot do what's been done to me.
Zak Ebrahim
#24. As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.
Adam Smith
#25. Hatred has no place in your heart. Empathy does.
Evan Grinde
#26. There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.
Brene Brown
#27. The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#28. That my most important values are honesty, empathy, and intellectual curiosity. That I'm unwilling to tolerate women who don't make me happy, no matter how hot they are.
Mark Manson
#29. There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.
Gloria Steinem
#30. What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened to everyone or to us alone; if the former it has no novelty value and if the latter it will be incomprehensible.
Fernando Pessoa
#31. Have greater compassion and empathy for others, and don't judge anyone, because you have no idea what's going on in their life.
Sandra Vischer
#32. No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.
Brene Brown
#33. Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself ...
Joe McMahon
#34. One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
Vernor Vinge
#35. There is no force in the world better able to alter anything from its course than love.
Gregory J. Boyle
#36. But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will.
Barbara Kingsolver
#37. No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#38. We want the people around us to show us a satisfactory measure of genuine empathy, but no one has any idea what that looks like. This puts everyone in the precarious position of guaranteed failure. I know that no one knows how to deal with stuff like this. There are no experts here.
Russ Ramsey
#39. No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#40. Empathy requires us to step outside of our own agendas long enough to develop an understanding of the other person's perspective. It can be rightly stated that no relationship will be whole without ongoing displays of empathy.
Les Carter
#41. I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.
Andrea Arnold
#42. There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.
Stefan Molyneux
#43. I am actually incredibly contented and jolly. But, and I have no idea why this is, I have a really strong empathy with all kinds of warped and destructive modes of thinking. I don't know why, but those things co-exist.
Sophie Hannah
#44. There is no small act of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#45. Those who cannot perceive are no better than those who cannot see ... Those who cannot empathize are no better than those who cannot perceive ...
Ashok Kallarakkal
#46. No one ... can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming someone else or worse: becoming nothing but the vibratory field between two people.
Chris Kraus
#47. Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.
Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.
Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#48. Simple kindness as a means to no other end than itself is not something that springs up and flourishes on its own. Compassion is cultivated. Empathy needs watching over. It's not enough to simply plant the seeds. Their fruits are not native to the soil. Left to itself, the untended heart grows cold.
Marc Parent
#49. Good and bad are illusions. What exists is either the presence of empathy or the lack of it. I think this should become the new, clear definition of how we see people. No more "good" and no more "bad". Those terms are highly subjective.
C. JoyBell C.
#50. Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person's shoes. There's no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
Seth Godin
#51. Conrad glared at him coldly. Jed could detect no human feeling or care or empathy coming from the man. This was a man who did everything by the book, and it was obvious that he didn't let anything - emotions, mercy, kindness - affect his decisions.
Jay Allan
#52. Who threw the stone at me? he asked himself. No one. But why does it bother me? I've undergone it before, during fusion. While using my empathy box, like everyone else. This isn't new. But it was. Because, he thought, I did it alone.
Philip K. Dick
#53. When the positive revolution takes hold it will no longer be enough for politicians to gain points through attack or being negative. Politicians will be expected to be constructive.
Edward De Bono
#54. I think as you get older, there are things that there's just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side.
Steve Toltz
#55. Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.
Leslie Jamison
#56. Leaves the body, transcends himself, herself, outside any system of belief. Freedom equals panic because without belief there is no language when you've lost yourself to empathy, a total shut down is the only way back in.
Chris Kraus
#57. empathy is taken for granted. When it is gone there is no protection against the wild inside of us.
P.M. Barnes
#58. It was strange how it was always the poor who picked us up [hitchhiking] ... They dwelled beneath poverty lines and were undereducated, but they were ... more civilized than the finely bred..for there is no demographic that has a sharper instinct for empathy than the downtrodden.
Ken Ilgunas
#59. Here we are, you and I, and I hope that Christ makes a third with us. No one can interrupt us now ... So come now, dearest friend, reveal your heart and speak your mind. (p. 29)
Aelred Of Rievaulx
#60. Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.
David Harsanyi
#61. From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.
T. S. Eliot
#62. My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.
Neal Shusterman
#63. I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.
Bat For Lashes
#64. Criticism, can be done with a kind heart and an earnest word to stimulate learning. However, sometimes with no accountability there is no regard for kindness or empathy to help another grow
Eri Nelson
#65. Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking it as a rejection, revive lifeless conversation, and even hear the feelings and needs expressed through silence.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#66. No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.
Dayananda Saraswati
#67. It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.
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