Quotes About Empathy

The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.

We have a man [Donald Trump] who understands the frustrations and the aspirations of our fellow citizens.

No matter what kind of backgrounds two men are from, if you go, 'Hey, man, women are crazy,' you've got a friend.

Sometimes women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them when they try on shoes.

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

I fear you may become a lonely man, even in the company of others.

If you're a racist, right now, in 2011... You just look like a retard, man.

My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.

The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.

But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?

Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.

The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.

Compassion--that's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps man ahead of them.

That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.

Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness.

Speaking as a man, it's not a woman's issue. Us men are tired of losing our women.

What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.

Never be glad that another man has died. Not ever. [...] It never ends. Never... ever... be glad to kill.