Quotes About Empathy

I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.

After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.

Animal protection is education to the humanity.

The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations.

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.

All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others

The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there's certain moments where that really cuts through.

The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?

When any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the sidelines.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Nothing will change until we demolish the "we-they" mentality. We are human, and therefore all human concerns are ours. And those concerns are personal.

As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.