Quotes About Empathy

I have in my bones, and in my blood, the knowledge that you have to help the people who are persecuted.

When you're a little fat boy in any kind of school, you're just persecuted something awful.

I think it's incredibly important for kids to be able to express who they are and feel like they can be themselves without being persecuted for it or bullied for it.

The more I get persecuted, the more people knock on my door in support.

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

As American Jews and descendants of immigrants, we never forget where our families came from or what members of our community experienced. Because we remember, we look out for those who are freeing persecution, oppression, and danger.

You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution.

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.

I don't think that I'm broken at all. I no longer think that I'm a mess. I just think I'm a deeply feeling person in a messy world.

Never judge a person if you don't know him.

I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.

As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person's persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.

The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.

Humanity wants no more war.

All the most reasonable teachings of human wisdom concerning justice are summed up in that famous adage: Do unto others that which you would that others should do unto you; Do not unto others that which you would not that others should do unto you. But this rule of moral practice is unscientific: what have I a right to wish that others should do or not do to me? It is of no use to tell me that my duty is equal to my right, unless I am told at the same time what my right is.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk? Then, leave me to my foolishness.

For Indians, chai resolves most things, consoles for the things it can't.

It isn't enough to exasperate others. You have to remember to gladden yourself!

Mankind Men, said the Devil, are good to their brothers: they don't want to mend their own ways, but each other's.