Quotes About Empathy

You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.

When a man leaves you notes saying he loves you, or asks how your day was - and then listens - you feel special.

The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.

Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.

I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.

No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.

Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.

Man does not live by destruction.

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.

Let's cool it brothers . . . Spoken to his assassins, three men who stabbed him 16 times.

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.

A homeless man standing at the off-ramp: the question in these moments isn't whether Jesus is in Him, but in me.

I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely

Kindness is a language heard by deaf men and felt by blind men.

All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.