Quotes About Empathy

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

Your humanity is your instrument.

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.

As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

In fighting for women, we fight for humanity. We fight for the future - for everyone.

Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

What better book can there be than the book of humanity.

To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.

As human beings, why does it take somebody to feel like they're close to us for us to see their humanity? Why can't we see the humanity in people that are distant from us?

We must remain human, even in the most difficult times … Because, despite everything, there must always be humanity within us. We have to bring it to others.