Quotes About Empathy

Only when compassion is present will people allow themselves to see the truth.

He knows,I said. I tell him everything Does that go both ways? he asked. Does what go both ways? You said you tell him everything, he replied. You didn't say we tell each other everything

You can't reduce sapient lives to numbers and exchange them like credits.

Vader wasn't a galaxy-conquering psychopath. He was a sad man whose one love in life had died, and whose one anchor to the world of the living was, yes, a galaxy-conquering madman.

Egocentricity is a problem, however, when it becomes exaggerated and is not balanced by such social traits as love, empathy, and altruism, the capacity for which is probably also represented in our genome. Interestingly, very few of us think to look for egocentricity in ourselves, although we are dazzled by it in others.

For life is a seamless web. It connects us not merely with one another, but with all that is sentient; with all that shares its miracle of birth and feeling and death.

Lack of empathy towards women has not only been recoded as "weak" or "politically correct" or a sign that one is sympathetic to the "F word" – something worse has occurred. Cruelty towards women has become the leitmotif of a reloaded misogyny that I have no hesitation in naming as fascist.

I was young once and slender and pretty and I made the most of it. It's somebody else's turn now.

Yesterday in his hospital room my husband asked urgently, Will you move me twenty-six thousand miles to the left?Yes, I said, not moving from my chair. After a moment he said, Thank you, adding in wonder, I didn't feel a thing.

Lament the human addiction to apologies, and how easily they are botched.

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

Only that which is good for all men is good for every man. No one is truly inspired for his own sake. He who is blessed, is a blessing for others.

God's goodness is not a cosmic force but a specific act of compassion. We do not know it as it is but as it happens. To mention an example, "Rabbi Meir said: When a human being suffers what does the Shechinah say? My head is too heavy for Me; My arm is too heavy for Me. And if God is so grieved over the blood of the wicked that is shed, how much more so over the blood of the righteous.

But the meaning is to walk in the ways of the Lord. As He clothes the naked so do thou also clothe the naked; as He visited the sick, so do thou also visit the sick; as he comforted mourners, so do Thou also comfort mourners" (Sotah 14a).

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Don't criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

You can't make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.