Lack Empathy Quotes

A man goes to a psychiatrist. "Nobody listens to me!" The doctor says, "Next!"

What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you

Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

I feel like when I listen to music nowadays, it's a lot of commands. It's a lot of demands. Do this dance, or feel like this. It's not like, 'how do you feel?'

I don't love the word "quirky." I think it's a word that's a catchall. It's a word that doesn't stand in empathy with the person, it stands in judgment of them. It's a very externalized word.

We know too much and feel too little.

They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an utter insensibility of what becomes of the fortunes of their fellow-creatures, as if they were not partakers of the same nature, or had no lot or connection at all with the species.

… utterly destitute of moral sensibility

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him.

You deserved to get run over. And besides, I barely tapped you. The only reason you broke your leg was because you panicked and tripped over your own feet.

Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

… people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

Often we live side by side but do not communicate heart to heart.

If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.

I have no human feelings.

Random Girl after a hookup: "Do you love me" Tucker: "I don't understand the question.

I will not call that person happy who knows no rest because of his enemies, who is the butt of fun by all and for whom no one has any empathy, who is as if held on a leash by others, who has lost himself in hedonistic pursuits, who preys on those weaker to him and wags his tail for his superiors.