(69 quotes found)
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
Meryl Streep
“You don't have to accept the invitation to get angry. Instead, practice forgiveness, empathy and encouragement.”
Dan Fallon
“I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs”
Anita Roddick
“I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.”
Rachel Weisz
“When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.”
Stephen R. Covey
“Is gentleness too much for usShould gentleness be filed along with empathyWe feel for someone else's childEvery time a smart bomb does its sums and gets it wrongSomeone else's child dies and equities in defence riseAmerica, America, please hear us when we callYou got hip-hop, be-bop, hustle and bustleYou got Atticus FinchYou got Jane RussellYou got freedom of speechYou got great beaches, wildernesses and mallsDon't let the might, the Christian right, fuck it all upFor you and the rest of the world”
Roger Waters
“Empathy is not a substitute for introspection. Stepping into someone else's shoes because yours don't fit means you still get to walk in ill-fitting shoes, you just don't get to own them.”
Colin Gorman
“When the pain and suffering of a fellow human being does not constitute a tragedy in my life, then my life has become one.”
Quinn Stilletto
“I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.”
John Shirley
“I would feel that aggravates the situation, ... his lack of empathy, his lack of remorse.”
David Castro
