Quotes About Empathy

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.

We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily.

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel.

No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.

Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.