Quotes About Empathy

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them.

The art of conversation lies in listening

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

Emotion is contagious.

it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

Cruelty takes many forms, but all those forms depend on the human hability to dehumanize and de-individualize another person.

Rare is the Stalin-like individual, who lacks empathy and who seems to take pleasure in inflicting pain or watching pain inflicted to others; common is the -virtuous citizen acting in the name of righteous causes-.

human beings are condemned to live in two ethical and behavioral worlds at once -the morality of empathy for and reciprocity with ingroups, and cold-hearted team aggression aimed at outgroups.

Once individuals are identified as belonging to an outgroup, there seems to be no limit to he human capacity for cruelty.

For all the differences that divide us from humanity across the sea or down the centuries, it is through suffering that we maintain a common bond.

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

A true community begins in the hearts of the people involved. It is not a place of distraction but a place of being.

It would be years before I understood that tenderness is the weapon used by the torturer to win over his victim.

Right intention says essentially: treat yourself and others with kindness and compassion while living in alignment with your deepest values.

Embracing small personal changes can be the first step toward creating greater change in the world, and humanity at large.

I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.