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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 characteristics that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man.
Evil I think, is the absence of empathy."
Gustav M. Gilbert, From Nuremberg (2000) Nazi Leaders on trial.. 
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"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us "universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Albert Einstein
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength.
Siddhartha Gautam Buddha, founder of Buddhism
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Song of Myself
The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry and leans by the
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peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity. - Johann Galtung
By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively - a never-ending process
... peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity...
with empathy we mean the ability also to understand the conflict the way the parties understand the conflict themselves;
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I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life.
That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
Albert Schweitzer
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy which is the most revolutionary emotion.
Gloria Steinem
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's comment March 14, 2012 6:31 PM
Fab, love it will email around
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That large-heartedness -- that concern and regard for the plight of others -- is not a partisan feeling. It's not a Republican or a Democratic feeling.
It, too, is part of the American character -- our ability to stand in other people's shoes; a recognition that we are all in this together, and when fortune turns against one of us, others are there to lend a helping hand; a belief that in this country, hard work and responsibility should be rewarded by some measure of security and fair play;
Barack Obama
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... the state of empathy or being empathic is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and means which pertain thereto as if one were the person, but without ever losing the 'as if' condition.
Carl Rogers
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The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasure of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eye for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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“If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
Atticus Finch To Kill a Mockingbird
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Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.'
The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.
Ansel Adams
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Compassion has the power to dissolve pain by not avoiding it, but by trusting that love affords the greatest protection. By discovering that there is a reality—love—stronger than any pain, you mount your strongest defense.
Deepak Chopra
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Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
Albert Schweitzer
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Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.
Cornel West
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Empathy education is one of the most critical educational issues of our time because it is only when students feel emotionally safe and secure in all areas of the school environment—in the classroom, hallway, or cafeteria; at recess; and on the bus—that they will begin to focus and tap into the unlimited potential that lies within each of them.
David A. Levine
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Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large.
But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.
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When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without taking responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good.
When I have been listened to, when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and go on.
Carl Rogers
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