Quotes About Empathy

I'm not a violent person; I'm not interested in violence.

I'm not a violent person at all, and I don't want to show violence for violent's sake.

I want to show in a violent sport like our sport, you don't need to hurt anybody in order to win.

We all want the same thing, love and acceptance. That's pretty much it. And what I've learned is that unless I'm happy with my side of the nickel, it can change violently - quickly.

Once kids begin to realize that they are connected to a greater good and greater whole, then that will lessen the possibility that they will act out violently because it creates empathy.

I feel such a connection to 'Violet.'

I am very chill and comfortable in my own skin, and because of this, I believe it is exactly what is needed when you are with a strong woman. My wife is no shrinking violet in her own right. As a result, you have to know when to push, when to pull, when to let it go, and when to stand firm.

I don't want to be a VIP. I want to be an LIP, a Less Important Person.

I'm running for governor because I want to build a Virginia that works for everyone - no matter who you are, no matter where you're from.

With virtual reality, I'm not interested in the novelty factor. I'm interested in the foundations for a medium that could be more powerful than cinema, than theatre, than literature, than any other medium we've had before to connect one human being to another.

It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other form of media. And it can change people's perception of each other. And that's how I think virtual reality has the potential to actually change the world.

Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world.

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

If we don't accept the uncomfortable proposition that every perpetrator of virtually every act of evil in our history has been a human being like us, then we actually foreclose the possibility of understanding how we do this to one another and therefore make it impossible to figure out how we might prevent these things.

When I think about the friends who've died, and sadly there's a lot of mine, there are certain people you can virtually see.

Tenderness is a virtue.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Kindness is more than a virtue. It is a source of strength.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.