Quotes About Empathy

We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.

I call it people-to-people politics and thats what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what were going to do.

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.

Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.

I'm just a socialist at heart.

I hate the fact that he's doing that, but the fact is that, you know what, that's a human being, though. He let his guard down one day to me, a friend.

I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.

The political is personal.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it's important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what's on their minds.

When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.

I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics.

Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

You can't spend months insulting almost every group imaginable and then expect everyone to suddenly sing kumbaya together.

Only a person who perceives that all human beings are important can become a great leader.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.