George Saunders Quotes About Empathy

Quotes about: Empathy

• My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day.

  George Saunders

  Heart, Empathy, My Heart

  George Saunders (2007). “The Braindead Megaphone”, p.120, Penguin

• Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.

  George Saunders

  Empathy, Feelings, Guilt

• I don't like that new age posture where you kind of tilt your head. I don't like that posture right now. I want something a little more confident and more sure of the values that we're defending, which are the old ones, love and empathy and patience and tolerance and civility. Not to get into politics or anything.

  George Saunders

  Want Something, Empathy, Tolerance

  Source: therumpus.net

• It's a time when a lot of principle virtues are being tested. Do we still believe in the truth? Do we still believe in empathy? Do we still believe the protection of the weakest among us? These are yes or no questions, but the means of communication is all tied up with those virtues and you can't abandon those virtues as you pursue them.

  George Saunders

  Believe, Communication, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

• When you talk about a reader being emotionally moved, a feeling of empathy, I think that comes out of that line-by-line respect for reader. That's actually where it all comes from.

  George Saunders

  Thinking, Empathy, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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