Empathy Quotes - Page 13

• We don't want to blame the victim. The civil rights movement had a profound effect on the United States and on the American mind, maybe unique in the world. Once we realized how victimized people of color had been, an honest empathy went out and that's how we got civil rights legislation.

  Jerome Kagan

  Unique, People, Profound

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The most important part of my practice as an artist has been remembering to stay humble. There is so much hurt, so much sorrow, so much pain in the world, and I think when you're born and bred into privilege, it's easier to have a closed perspective on things. But there's this opportunity that's open to all of us to let empathy connect us back to one another.

  Ezra Miller

  Hurt, Pain, Humble

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died, then people tend not to be receptive. But once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  People, Supportive, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Culture is not usually one of the criterion for personhood, but it has been argued that culture is sort of a medium for a lot of these criteria, such as empathy, and so on.

  Hal Whitehead

  Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.

  Molly Antopol

  Character, Different, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The problem of empathy is pretty universal, and pretty much breaks down across America. People can't feel beyond their drawn borders. And skin color and culture have a lot to do with that.

  Karan Mahajan

  People, Skins, Culture

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I guess my point in general is that, if you look closely, who is in politics to self-identify - these are the people who flip easily, from right to left, pro-Muslim to anti-Muslim, etc. - versus who, whether on the right or left, is moved by genuine interest and empathy.

  Karan Mahajan

  People, Interest, Moved

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We have a broken system, and we need politicians who are going to fix it. We need someone who's going to govern on behalf of everyone in this country, including immigrants. The fact of the matter is, the candidates need the Latino vote to win. If we feel we're not being represented and if we feel like the candidate is insulting us, ignoring us, and is not leading with fairness and empathy, I think that's going to be reflected in turnout.

  Diane Guerrero

  Country, Thinking, Winning

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• When I talk about an "empathy bank," I don't mean literally opening up a bank and putting in deposits. What I mean is that the more we can, as individuals and as members of a community, empathize with, understand the pain and uncertainty economic crisis causes other people, the more we lay the groundwork for political change.

  Sasha Abramsky

  Pain, Mean, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I have always been with men who were type A, alpha males. I must exist because I'm with him, I'd think. But what made them what they were also often meant they were lacking empathy genes. And now I know I don't need an alpha male; I need somebody who's interesting. I'm not pretending that I'm 100 percent healed, so I might not know if a man is right for me right away, but it wouldn't take me seven years to figure it out. Maybe a month or two.

  Jane Fonda

  Men, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the art better if you go through some struggles. To be an artist, in any form, you have to develop some sense of compassion and empathy - it's an important quality for everyone to have, on a human level. But I think, as part of our job, you have to be able to do that, so suffering, tends - if you allow it - to let you look on the bright side. It will help with those senses.

  Reeve Carney

  Art, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I realized I had written maybe, I dunno, the first ever asexual love song. Where it's really just about a fear of dying alone - you need contact, you need love, you need empathy. You need this relationship but if there's no sex involved, people act like it's not a legitimate relationship.

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Love You, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When you start getting into your politics it's like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it's always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you're taking. You're not telling people to think, you're telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Thinking, People, Honest

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Kate Otto, like so many in her generation, is committed to being a good global citizen and doing her part to make the world a better place. Everyday Ambassador is a refreshing approach which encourages collaborative work with focus, empathy, humility and patience to better affect positive change in communities throughout the world.

  Ann Veneman

  Humility, Focus, Community

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• If your moon sign is in Leo, you have a lot of empathy for Leos. You empathize with their approach and their aims and their aura.

  Ian Svenonius

  Moon, Auras, Aim

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• None of my clients are criminals, but to a much lighter degree that's what goes on. I hear the story, and I hear it with the level of detail that breeds empathy.

  Hilary Liftin

  Criminals, Degrees, Details

  "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

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• Filmmaking is challenging for men and women. In both cases, it is incredibly difficult. And gender is neither a guarantee of greater sensitivity, capacity for empathy or aperture.

  Claudia Llosa

  Men, Challenges, Guarantees

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through anothers eyes or heart.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Eye, Opportunity

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• What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

  M. Scott Peck

  Honesty, Skills, People

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• My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

  George W. Romney

  Inspiration, Wife, Graciousness

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• This enthusiasm [for empathy] may be misplaced. Empathy has some unfortunate features – it is parochial, narrow-minded and innumerate. We’re often at our best when we’re smart enough not to rely on it.

  Paul Bloom

  Smart, Enthusiasm, May

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• The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.

  David M. Kelley

  Thinking, People, Design

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• I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.

  John Green

  Meaningful, Real, Good Friend

  "Read The Heartbreaking Letter The Girl Who Inspired TFIOS Wrote To Her Future Self" by Kristin Harris, www.seventeen.com. May 30, 2014.

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• Masters points out that the heterosexuals were at a disadvantage, as they do not benefit from what he called “gender empathy”. Doing unto your partner as you would do unto yourself only works well when you're gay.

  Mary Roach

  Gay, Benefits, Gender

  Mary Roach (2009). “Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex”, p.307, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The main factor for Craig was that he was being asked to move to a new position in the last year of his contract. We had empathy for that and we wanted to show what he has meant to the Astros over the years.

  Gerry Hunsicker

  Moving, Years, Lasts

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