Quotes About Empathy

real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.

You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.

I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important.

If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.

My own share making contribution [to the the well-being of humanity]. So I never feel I am something special.

Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

I care about the human race, and I strive to understand it.

Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity.

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

I AM VERY MOVED BY SURVIVORS. BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO OVERCOME A HANDICAP, A SITUATION, OR ANYTHING. VISITING THE HEARTS AND SOULS OF THOSE PEOPLE TEACHES ME A LOT ABOUT HUMANS AND HUMANITY.

If you believe people have no history worth mentioning, it's easy to believe they have no humanity worth defending

I want people to see some of their own humanity no matter who they are.

If you let go of fart jokes, you've let go of a piece of humanity.

Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.