Quotes about Empathy

You can't be hard on a man who needs you, it will prey on your conscience for the rest of your life." "It won't." "You've got to be kind, Henry." "I'm not." "You've got to have some pity." "I haven't." "A good man knows how to forgive." "I don't." "You wouldn't want me to think that you're selfish." "I am.

in the wisdom of women the Golden One had understood more than we can understand.

He was searching for words to name his meaning without naming it, she thought, to make her understand that which he did not want to be understood.

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been—for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.

If one feels compassion for the victims of a concentration camp, one cannot feel it for the torturers. If one does feel compassion for the torturers, it is an act of moral treason toward the victims.

If one feels compassion for the victims of a concentration camp, one cannot feel it for the torturers. If one does feel compassion for the torturers, it is an act of moral treason toward the victims.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight!

God sees the world through the eyes of those most oppressed.

Look at yourself before you pass judgment. Don't make someone else clean up your mess.

What matters is how well we have loved.