Quotes About Empathy

My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

You find a lot out about people when they're blowing up, as we say, gasping for air, and if they can still hold conversations and be polite.

It's weird, but I'm so empathetic; when I see people dying on hot sauce, I do feel for them. And I'm a Midwestern guy, so I think I'm just naturally nice and polite.

Politeness and caring for each other cannot be a thing of the past.

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.

Bringing world leaders together as human beings rather than political machines is very important.

When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.

I want to start thinking about other people and the political climate. I can't sit here and write an album about myself. It just feels wrong.

There's been such a pushback against political correctness, and I think that's due to the discomfort people feel talking about other people's issues that they don't fully understand.

I know what it's like to lose your home. I know what it's like to be hungry. I know what it's like to lose a family member because of a lack of health care. So all of these things aren't just political issues for me. All of these things are personal to me.

Most people enjoy other people. Most people are human beings first. And affiliated with political parties second.

I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.

I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.

Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.

I don't believe that we should never not talk to people we don't agree with politically. If you can make that person laugh, it's the first step to getting him to listen to change their mind.

It's hard for me not to have a great deal of compassion for the last Romanov family because, really, I don't know if a politically savvy ruler would have been able to make the situation turn out much differently.

In order to practice dialogue, you need to be able to set aside your assumptions and try to listen more than you want to talk. It's not always politically correct to be able to do that, but it can give you a better sense of the reality.

I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.

Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know where it's all going to go - it's hard stuff. I'm not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I?

I believe that a politician needs to be with people.

I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place.