Quotes about Empathy
The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
— Elie Wiesel
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one day, and that will be salvation.
— Albert Camus
Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.
— Germany Kent
When your heart is heavy, sometimes it's just easier to retweet the words of another person who seems to know exactly how you feel.
— Germany Kent
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
— Thomas Jefferson
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.
— Malcolm X
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
— Abraham Lincoln
A better politics is one where we appeal to each other's basic decency instead of our basest fears.
— Barack Obama
The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.
— Hillary Clinton
Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.
— Barack Obama