Quotes About Empathy

Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine

Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

Let men be compelled to wear our dress for awhile and we should soon hear them advocating a change.

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.

I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.

White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.

It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.

Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.

I had to do something. A young man came into my home for protection. Is he dangerous? No. Is he a spy? No. Is he a traitor? No. He's just a Jewish teenager who wants to leave.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.

Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.