Quotes About Empathy

America needs fewer men obsessed with erecting fences of hate, suspicion and name calling.

I wish all men were like dogs.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Sorrow makes men sincere.

To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.

When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.

Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night.

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

The secret is to always let the other man have your way.

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

Be kind, man - don't be mankind.

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.

Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.

Man was not made for himself alone

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.