Quotes about Empathy
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.
- Jurgen Moltmann
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
- John Updike
The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Man is born for deeds of kindness.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.
- Marcus Aurelius
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
- Cicero
We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
- Phillips Brooks
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.
- Thomas Jefferson
The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
- Victor Hugo
A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
- Victor Hugo