Quotes for Empathy

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

Daniel Dennett

You have to have some connection, empathy, or chemistry with the person you're playing and playing with.

Richard E. Grant

We need all people, everyone, to think for themselves, to think critically, to think abstractly, to develop their powers of empathy.

Michael Rosen

Tony Blair has made a good contribution to the cause of peace in Ireland. He has made a great effort to understand it. He has great empathy with the need to resolve the conflict.

Martin McGuinness

I love the theatre and Miller is one of my all-time favourite playwrights. 'All My Sons' is a very socialist play, which exposes the lack of empathy that can accompany capitalism when it is left unchecked.

David Lammy

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

George McGovern

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think I identify as a comedian before kind of anything else. Before I identify as a person, as a human being with empathy.

Patti Harrison

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

Richard Ford

'I' is the word everyone uses to refer to themselves. On the one hand, it points to a specific person, but it's also this blank space that you can insert yourself into; it's a chute into empathy.

Alexandra Kleeman

All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.

Gloria Steinem

The truth is that we should live with less envy and more cordiality and empathy.

Leonardo Bonucci

Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My answer is competence. Empathy is important, but competence is essential.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I think our jobs as parents is to raise our children with empathy - to figure out who this little character is, almost from birth, and then guide them to fulfill their best potential.

Margaret Trudeau

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

Hugh Jackman

'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

Karl Rove

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Alice Miller

We've had Obama for eight years, who, to me, is a model of integrity, sensitivity, empathy. He's wise, he's patient, he maintains his composure, and I would have voted for him again.

Max Joseph

I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

Zooey Deschanel

The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.

Richard Cohen