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Quotes About Empathy

We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.
~ George Takei
Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?
~ Walter Dean Myers
How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.
~ Jean Piaget
Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
~ Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
~ Pema Chodron
A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.
~ Mairead Corrigan
Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.
~ Sean Stephenson
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
~ Maya Angelou
So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.
~ Sigmund Freud
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
~ M. H. Abrams
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'
~ Desmond Tutu
Above all nations is humanity.
~ Goldwin Smith
Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself.
~ James Genn
In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.
~ Anthony Shadid
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
~ Cesar Chavez
Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.
~ Jeremy Bentham
Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?
~ H. P. Blavatsky
In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
~ Hans Kung
Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.
~ Ian Mcewan
Until we begin to see each other as ourselves, nothing will change. We are one planet.
~ Peter Joseph
The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.
~ Dean Koontz
I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.
~ Matisyahu