We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards othersboth human and animal.
Gregory Colbert
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you
Susan Sarandon
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Dean Koontz
The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
Walter Bendix Schnflies Benjamin
When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
Stephen R. Covey
We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.
Barack Obama
Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.
Stephen Covey
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Meryl Streep
The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.
William M. Kucmierowski
Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them
Katherine Ellison
I don't believe that children are born with empathy. It is something they learn by seeing it modeled by others.
Jacqui Rivait