Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Rogge

These were Games of heart, warmth and empathy and smiles. I must say the venues were perhaps the most remarkable in Winter Games history.

Peter Greenaway

It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again -- and this is a very subjective position -- that most cinema seems to trivialise the emotions, sentimentalising or romanticising them.

Martin Buber

All actual life is encounter.

Martin Buber

In the beginning was the relationship.

Martin Buber

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

Martin Buber

Feeling one "has"; love occurs.

Peter Singer

Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.

Walt Whitman

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

Roger Ebert

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy,

Roger Ebert

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

Rebecca Solnit

We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

Gary Bauer

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

George Saunders

Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.

Goldie Hawn

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

Harper Lee

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

Eric Zorn

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.

Enrico Caruso

During empathy one is simply 'there for' the other individual, when experiencing their own feelings while listening to the other, i.e. during sympathy, the listener pays attention to something about themselves, and is not 'there for' the client. Consider how you would feel if you sensed that the individual listening to you was getting into their own 'stuff' rather than hearing and reflecting exactly what you were feeling in a moment of need?

Eoin Colfer

I am older and have more control over my empathy,' said Qwan. 'That's why I didn't throw up.' And having said that, he threw up.

Barack Obama

It's puzzling, given his immediate response during 9/11, that he did not feel a greater sense of empathy toward the folks that were experiencing this enormous disaster, ... This Week.

It seems like an obscure rule. I think we could all have been guilty of it if we don't watch it. I have more empathy for him than anything, really.

Jay Griffiths

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

Gloria Steinem

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

Gloria Steinem

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

Gloria Steinem

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

Hugh Jackman

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

Horace Greeley

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

Eric Fischl

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

Katherine Ellison

Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.

Joshua Leonard

I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of.

Judy Garland

Wouldn t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.

Matthieu Ricard

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.