Quotes About Empathy

Being a doctor, you are not supposed to give vent to any signs of revulsion on encountering the most noxious of odours or the most gruesome of sights.

The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.

On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.

I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness.

When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.

When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.

I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image.

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil rights.

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.

A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.

Every man is our brother, and every man's burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.