Quotes About Empathy

Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own.

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

A society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.

Our society and especially those who suffer injustice need to feel the impact of our commitment to justice and our advocacy for the vulnerable.

I treasure a core value of humanity and that guides people why they act the way they do. I will use this to show other people how they can understand each other… as one, we can help society.

A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.

Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we live. But, how much can we contribute to others in our society ?

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.