Megan McCafferty Quotes

People can be so heartless and dirty.

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

You ought to try being cruel to some people.

Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.

I can be a cruel person.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

If I see a baby, I don't feel anything. It's like Theresa May walking past a homeless person.

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

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.

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.

I believe sharing stories and experiences is the best way to teach people to empathize!

Human beings are struggling, and so they are egoists. But it's wrong to say that they are wholy cruel - it's a deformed view.

Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

Humans are not really very humane.

To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.

The world doesn't just revolve around you. There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit.