Quotes About Empathy

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.

I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.

We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.

Man is born for deeds of kindness.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!

All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

Presents are the best way to show someone how much you care. It is like this tangible thing that you can point to and say, Hey man, I love you this many dollars-worth.

The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life.

A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.