Quotes About Empathy

Every person is worth your time, Hannibal. If at first appearance a person seems dull, then look harder, look into him.

You didn't draw a freak. You drew a man with a freak on his back. Nothing wrong with you, kid.

Killing somebody, even if you have to do it, it feels that bad?' 'Willy, it's one of the ugliest things in the world.

La razón por la que pudo atraparme es porque ambos somos iguales

Jack Crawford heard the rhythm and syntax of his own speech in Graham's voice. He had heard Graham do that before, with other people. Often in intense conversation Graham took on the other person's speech patterns. At first, Crawford had thought he was doing it deliberately, that it was a gimmick to get the back-and-forth rhythm going. Later Crawford realized that Graham did it involuntarily, that sometimes he tried to stop and couldn't.

Often in intense conversation Graham took on the other person's speech patterns.

it is incident most to them that are conscious of the fewest abilities in themselves who are forced to keep themselves in their own favor by observing the imperfections of other men. And therefore much laughter at the defects of others is a sign of pusillanimity. For of great minds, one of the proper works is to help and free others from scorn, and compare themselves only with the most able.

Oh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch—stitch—stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt.

Me, me, me is dull, dull, dull.

Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to mine. Why should I question it? His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote, to bring all men by force of argument to one opinion? ...Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

the measure of society is how it treats the weakest members

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself.

shall we refuse to the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe?

War is as much a punishment to the punisher as it is to the sufferer.

he who saves the life of one man saves the entire world.

He was hissed on the streets of Frankfurt, stones were thrown, a group of workmen jeered him and called out that he ought to have been burned with the Jews.

When you get older you realize that most everybody's got different versions of the same problem. The trap is thinking that it's all about you.

Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.