Quotes About Empathy

No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.

If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case.

Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.

I'm a people's man - only the people matter.

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

What I'm finding out now is that people care more about a flag than about their fellow man. That's killing me.

As we form our individual opinions of our fellow man, let us base them on our similarities and not our differences.

Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.

It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.

To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

In all honesty, we don't know what's in the hearts of other men. All I know is that I respect comedy and I know comedy. I would never, ever, ever take somebody else's joke.

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.

I've been out with men who have literally had an argument with the mirror because they couldn't get their hair right. When I was younger, I might have reassured him, but I can't do that anymore.

I understand men much better than most women I know.

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.

Men should come with instruction booklets.

But men are less used to the idea of being raped than women are, and it strikes them with a fresh horror. With women, that horror comes right along with the female genitals.

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Trample not on the ruins of a man.