1,354 Quotes About Empathy

With our advances in technology and obsession with business cost efficiency - yet lack of deep dialogue, empathy and strategy - can anyone tell me what the role of the human being will be by mid 21st Century?

Adelina, one of them says. I know it is Compasia, the angel of Empathy. There has been another bargain.I don’t understand, I reply. They are so tall, and I am so small.There is a feeling of light under my body, of wind and stars. There is the disintegration of my form. Then, there is sky.You will.

Humanity's greatest strength is it's ability to foster group compassion.

Humanity's greatest strength is its ability to foster group compassion.

CWC (Church Women Concerned) enabled us as women in that part of South Africa, to see ourselves as ordinary citizens who found themselves in decidedly far from ordinary circumstances. In truth, some of us were not even considered citizens, strictly speaking: the African had, by this time, been completely deprived of that privilege.

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.

If I use empathy to liberate people to be less depressed, to get along better with their family, and at the same time not inspire them to use their energy to rapidly transform systems in the world, then I am part of the problem. I am essentially calming people down, making them happier to live in the systems as they are, and I am using empathy as a narcotic.

Today, while the cyber world rages with ideologies and passionate moral perspectives, the streets remain comatose, echoing nothing but silence.

Complacency has taken the place of outrage and demands for justice have been substituted for trending hashtags and unified profile pictures.