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Quotes About Empathy

She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.
~ L.A. Weatherly, Angel
Humanity is outraged in me and with me.
~ George Sand
My passion is to tell stories that reflect humanity.
~ Pam Grier
I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.
~ Tony Hillerman
The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
~ Dean Koontz
The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.
~ Frans de Waal
At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.
~ Russell Hornsby
If you stare at someone long enough, you start to see their humanity.
~ Mark Andrus
... humility + humor = humanity.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
Humanity is waiting for us. Not to hear about our actions, but to see our actions.
~ Hany El-Banna
I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Mama, humanity is my business.
~ Philip Zimbardo
Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.
~ Lauren DeStefano
No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
No moral value is greater than humanity.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially. [...] It's our common humanity that defines us.
~ Naveen Andrews
I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.
~ Joseph Addison
There's not really such thing as 'good' or 'bad' people, there's just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.
~ Isaac Marion, The New Hunger
I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
~ Alan Bennett, The History Boys
If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
~ Jonathan Swift