4 Graham Greene Quotes on Empathy

Graham Greene quotes on empathy

8. It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

44. Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

49. What right had I to value her less than the bodies in the square? Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel. I had judged like a journalist, in terms of quantity, and I had betrayed my own principles; I had become as engage as Pyle, and it seemed to me that no decision would ever be simple again.

69. Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.