Quotes About Empathy

It's really never fair to judge people because none of us know what's going on inside anyone else's head.

None of our kids come into the world knowing anything about disliking one another.

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.

I'm not gay, but I don't think you have to be gay to have a gay hero. Growing up, Alan Turing was certainly mine. I'm also not the greatest mathematician of my generation. We have lots of biographical differences, but nonetheless, I always identified with him so much.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

I don't want to be responsible for messing up someone. I don't want to be responsible for that, because the things that happened in The Verve, it was heavy stuff. It was real. It wasn't just frivolous nonsense, you know what I mean? There was real people's lives.

I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.

When you're around somebody for a long period of time, they know you and you know them. So, there's a lot of nonverbal communication that happens.

Nonviolence would work today, it would work 2,000 years from now, it would work 5,000 years from now.

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.

The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.

Whether it is crimes against women, whether it's discrimination against women, whether it's just social bias against women - these things should be anomalies; they should not be the norm.

Trolling and bullying has become a norm on social media and people are not aware of the ways to deal with it. So, it's important to create awareness and let people know that they are not alone.

I think there were times when I first started out, when I was covering Iraq - I was basically living there in 2003 and 2004 - that car bombs and attacks became so the norm that it was weird for me to leave and realize that no one else actually cared about what was going on there.

If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.

I think 'Normal People' is a fantastic piece of art for conversations around consent. It shows that you don't have to do anything you don't want to do and looks at respecting the other person.

I'm a normal person, and I'm going to make mistakes. I think people have to accept that.

When you meet people you don't want them to look at you and say 'poor you.' I just wanted to be treated like a normal person.

I'm a normal person. I'm just like you and just like everyone else - I have feelings and thoughts.

I'm a normal person, but people see me as this person who's not really real, almost like I don't have feelings. They think they can treat me any way they want to.

People ask me all the time, 'What is it like being on set for a show about trans people?' And this is a state of normalcy to me.

There are very few moments in my life where I feel normalcy.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.