“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”

—Hannah Arendt

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

—Captain G.M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947)