Quotes About Empathy

An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.

I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone.

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.

I could make a film in front of a wall if I knew how to find the data of man's true humanity and how to express it.

I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.

The age of Chivalry is gone. An age of Humanity has come.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world.

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again.

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.

I'm into humanity. I don't believe in God, but I believe in human beings.