Quotes About Empathy

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

We obviously feel destiny and purpose and do what we do, but within that are ways to help others and to inspire others and to support and encourage people.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Give others their dignity by opening and softening in your heart to them.

The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.

Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

Human dignity should be without borders.

Treat people with dignity and respect.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.

We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.