Quotes about Empathy

The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.

One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

I am tired of seeing people battered and bruised and bloody, injured and jumped on, along the Jericho Roads of life.

A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other before that day, between whom no word or even look of affection had ever passed, and yet now in an hour of trouble our hands instinctively sought for each other.

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.