Quotes About Empathy

. . . if there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it . . .

Earl: Augh! They're trying to take the wolf off the endangered list .Mooch: I know. But did you hear what they're putting back on the endangered list? Earl: What?Mooch: Empathy and compassion.

Let us revolt against the nightmare, and work together for a kinder world.

You are not alone if you are lonely, When you feel afraid, you're not the only.

~ Tolerance increases hope between people and their voice of conscience.

He who makes fun of a short and fat man's weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

If untouchability lives, humanity must die.

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

In our inherent contradictions as humans, and in order to validate our own pain, we deny the pain of others. But it is in acknowledging the pain of others that we achieve fully our humanity.

A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.

The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity

Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Our differences in beliefs do not truly separate us, or elevate us over others. Rather, they highlight the rich tapestry that is humanity.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.

In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.

I have not been sent to curse people, but as a mercy to all mankind.

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.