Lack Of Empathy Quotes

“The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.”
― Dean Koontz, Forever Odd

“People like it when others fail and suffer. They get assured they are not alone in that predicament”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection”
― Natascha Kampusch, 3096 Days

“She was so upset about a blog that maybe a total of six people read yet had no compassion for her granddaughters who had suffered the physical and emotional pains of sexual abuse and whose lives were changed forever. The two cannot even be compared, yet when someone is in denial about what happened, they cannot perceive what is true. It seemed too hard for her to let her mind go there and believe her grandson could do such terrible things.”
― Erin Merryn, Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness

“A notable difference between normal narcissistic personality disorder and malignant narcissism is the feature of sadism, or the gratuitous enjoyment of the pain of others. A narcissist will deliberately damage other people in pursuit of their own selfish desires, but may regret and will in some circumstances show remorse for doing so, while a malignant narcissist will harm others and enjoy doing so, showing little empathy or regret for the damage they have caused.”
― John D. Garner, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President

“a psychiatrist without compassion is a terrifying thing indeed”
― Jamie Deckoff-Jones

“Narcissists only play for their own business, whereas Distortionists play with other’s business only to gain personal advantage. If you are both, then you aren’t an entrepreneur.”
― Ashish Patel

“A leader who allows their subordinates to suffer as proof of who is the boss likely quenches their thirst with salt water from a rusted canteen.”
― Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army

“Some people will rip out your heart with a steak knife then say, “Oops, sorry, do you need a plaster?”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“You do love me, don't you? Tell me you do.'
'Of course, little idiot; be quiet, anyway,' and she must be content with that.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Julius

“Some folks are so busy stuffing their face that they don’t see their neighbor starving.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Those with hearts of stone will have dry eyes.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“It's a disgrace that the most intelligent species on Earth is developing weapons and waging wars to kill their own kind. It's a disgrace that we do not exercise love, empathy, and other human qualities. It's a disgrace that we have allowed some evil individuals to exploit our innermost fears and reduce humanity to ashes. We must stop the proliferation of weapons by any and all countries and remain consistent in our staunch opposition to such counterproductive initiatives.”
― Sayem Sarkar

“Waging war is the least intelligent thing one can do on Earth.”
― Sayem Sarkar