1,354 Quotes About Empathy

Donald could no more advocate for the sick and dying than he could put himself between his father and Freddy. Perhaps most crucially for Donald, there’s no value in empathy, no tangible upside for caring for other people.

Everyone - absolutely everyone - deserves humanity, empathy, compassion. It doesn't have to be you who gives it to them.

Being political doesn’t only or principally mean caring what party wins the next election; to be political is to care about the happiness of strangers.

Whether it is rational or empirical, your approach to life must always be empathetic. Emotional intelligence is acquired when knowledge and empathy are combined and applied to situations regularly in everyday life.

When the love walks with an innocent morning,the empathy of an unheard song will the world to me.

Humans are unique in having the astonishing capacity to extend our sympathies far beyond the here and now. through time and space, to anywhere and anything we choose. It is our culture that decides how large and inclusive our moral circle is, but it is each of us who makes up our culture. (p.250)

You can't love someone without imaginative sympathy, without beginning to see the world from another point of view. You can't be a good lover, a good artist or a good politician without this capacity (you can get away with it, but that's not what I mean). Show me the tyrants who have been great lovers.

Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person—flawed, complex, striving—you’ve reached beyond stereotype.

Monsters-their lack of empathy is their strength.