Quotes about Empathy

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right

It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

The President last night had a dream. He was in a party of plain people and as it became known who he was they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said, "He is a common-looking man." The President replied, "Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.