Quotes About Empathy

As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion.

I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.

I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.

I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation.

It is only when you're lying to yourself or hating some aspect of yourself that you'll get an emotional charge from someone else's behavior.

After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.

I'm totally into the emotional aspect of things.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

You might, without my crediting it, fall deeply in love and forever, with some warped hunchback whelped in the gutter. I should equally stop you from taking him.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence—that no one should be hurt.

To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long.

Gender equality must become a lived reality.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

And the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one who deserves it least. And that's my opinion, expressed as politely as possible.

I tasted the bread and wine of equality.

Equality cannot be reached if fought in a divisive way.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

In the end we must, I think, somehow conclude that they have as much right to this planet as we have.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

We sit here, very different each from the other, until the passion arrives to give us our equality, to make us part of the play, to make the play part of us.

And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.

ThoughtOf equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chancesand rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.