Quotes About Empathy

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don't look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

Don't judge me, you could be me in another life.

Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?

Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.

It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.

Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.

Love is an act of courage.

Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.

Deep connection is the antidote to madness.

Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.

We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.