Quotes about Empathy

never look down on somebody unless you are helping them up

Never look down on people unless you are helping them up.

Never look down on someone unless you're helping them up.

For what are we born if not to aid one another?

Please understand and love me.

I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.

Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.

To understand is to forgive.

Love is the wanting to do things for.

I would not kill even a Bishop. I would not kill a proprietor of any kind. I would make them work each day as we have worked in the fields and as we work in the mountains with the timber, all of the rest of their lives. So they would see what man is born to. That they should sleep where we sleep. That they should eat as we eat. But above all that they should work. Thus they would learn.

For what are we born if not to aid one another? And to listen and say nothing is a cold enough aid.

You're feeling it now, fish, he said. And so, God knows, am I.