Empathy Quotes - Page 23

• And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see.

  Barack Obama

  People, Leader, Political

  "Obama Asks Young Israelis To Push For Peace". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 22, 2013.

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• On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective responsibility to confront anti-Semitism, prejudice, and intolerance across the world. On this Yom Hashoah, we must accept the full responsibility of remembrance, as nations and as individuals-not simply to pledge "never again," but to commit ourselves to the understanding, empathy and compassion that is the foundation of peace and human dignity.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Compassion

  Statement from the President on Yom Hashoah, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 08, 2013.

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• Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It's about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don't exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation. And I know, because America, we, too, have had to work hard over the decades, slowly, gradually, sometimes painfully, in fits and starts, to keep perfecting our union.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Hard Work, Heart

  Remarks by President Obama and Mrs. Obama in Town Hall with Youth of Northern Ireland, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 17, 2013.

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• Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the experience of weakness and powerlessness, become part of the uncertainty, and give up control and self-determination.

  Henri Nouwen

  Determination, Giving Up, Self

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• I can sense your presence in my Heart although you belong to all the world.

  Rumi

  Heart, World, Your Presence

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• If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

  John Napier

  Men, Purpose, Gestures

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• I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Expression, Feels, Mines

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Ted Toadvine (2007). “The Merleau-Ponty Reader”, p.174, Northwestern University Press

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• A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Healthy, Psychological, Accepting

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• I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of the mater is that hierarchy and violence can't be remedied by more hierarchy and violence. The end doesn't justify the means, the means we choose decide the end we get. The means are the end.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Violence, Stories

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• If we become skilled in giving ourselves empathy, we often experience in just a few seconds a natural release of energy which then enables us to be present with the other person. If this fails to happen, however, we have a couple of other choices.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Couple, Giving, Choices

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• Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

  David Miliband

  Vision, Analysis, Policy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

  Dean Koontz

  Kindness, Weakness, Essentials

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.471, Bantam

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• How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength of the motivations produced by the desire to escape from it?

  Didier Eribon

  Motivation, Desire, Shame

  Didier Eribon, Michael Lucey (2004). “Insult and the Making of the Gay Self”, p.29, Duke University Press

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• Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.

  Emile Gaboriau

  Suffering, Feels, Alas

  Émile Gaboriau (2015). “File”, p.41, Booklassic

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• The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.

  Erica Bauermeister

  Age, Enough, Currency

  Erica Bauermeister (2013). “The Lost Art of Mixing”, p.136, Penguin

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• Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.

  Gary Bauer

  Powerful, Rights, Support

  FaceBook post by Gary L. Bauer from Apr 08, 2010

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• Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

  Gary Bauer

  Believe, Government, Roles

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• If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Tables, Down And

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.94, 谷月社

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• Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our ceaseless withholding our constant exclusion. Our sphere has widened and we find ourselves quite unexpectedly in a new expansive location in a place of endless acceptance and infinite love.

  Greg Boyle

  Eye, Acceptance, Unconditional Love

  Greg Boyle (2011). “Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.

  Harry Browne

  People, Perfection, Limited Resources

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• The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Memories, Book, Law

  "Commentaries For A New American Passover Seder, Jonathan Safran Foer Presents New Haggadah", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2012.

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• But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Needs, Mood, Contagious

  Josephine Humphreys (2000). “The Fireman's Fair”, p.50, Penguin

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• Understanding people's difficulties and-just as crucial-helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours.

  Kathryn Erskine

  Teaching, People, Understanding

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• Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mind, Speakers

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• The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it stands, true empathy remains impossible. And so long as it is, people will continue to suffer the pressure of their seemingly singular existence.

  Nicole Krauss

  Drawing, Long, People

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