“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now…

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“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have 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 men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

~ Captain G. M. Gilbert (Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials.)

(Artwork by: Isaiah Stephens)

5 Responses


  1. Being empathic towards others is a gift that few people have, a lot depends on your past experience …………… I say…….. life experience play a important rules


    Dear Cheyenne have a great day night and day is in your country???


  2. Roberto Marras THANK YOU ; Roberto Marras


    iniquity goes pass the lack of empathy into pure hate.


    This is ‘ a ‘ hate that must be vigorously observed to be overcome.


    As you place your eyes in alignment with ….D I V I N I T Y !