Quotes About Empathy

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.

A better politics is one where we appeal to each other's basic decency instead of our basest fears.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?

The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author.

My only politics have been friendship.

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

War is the enemy of all mankind.

Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.