Quotes about Empathy

The number one question customers are asking about a business is, 'Do they care about me?

Since the death of his daughter, a consumptive, he had not thrashed a woman; he lived alone.

She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her.

But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

It is not always events that have touched us personally that affect us the most.

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.