Empathy Quotes

“Aristotle was especially aware of the importance of this benevolent form of self-love, when he wrote, “All friendly feelings for others are an extension of man’s feelings for himself.”54”
― Roman Krznaric, Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It

“Empathy is a constant awareness of the fact that your concerns are not everyone’s concerns and that your needs are not everyone’s needs, and”
― Roman Krznaric, Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It

“empathy is the art of stepping imaginatively into the shoes of another person, understanding their feelings and perspectives, and using that understanding to guide your actions.1”
― Roman Krznaric, Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It

“Spitz’s shocking research revealed that human affection may be even more critical to survival than food and shelter or was at least of equal importance in our hierarchy of needs.”
― Roman Krznaric, Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It

“What all stereotyping has in common, whether it is a product of politics, religion, nationalism, or other forces, is an effort to dehumanize, to erase individuality, to prevent us from looking someone in the eye and learning their name. The consequence is to create a culture of indifference that empathy finds difficult to penetrate.”
― Roman Krznaric, Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It

“A first step is to humanize our imaginations by developing an awareness of all those individuals hidden behind the surface of our daily lives, on whom we might depend in some way.”
― Roman Krznaric, Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It

“Highly empathic people are engaged in a constant search for what they share with other people, even when those people appear alien to them.”
― Roman Krznaric, Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It

“According to social scientist Jeremy Rifkin, online culture may be leading us toward a truly empathic civilization. “New developments in internet connections,” he argues, make it “possible to imagine a paradigmatic shift in human thought and a tipping point in global consciousness in less than a generation. . . . The potential to experience empathic sensibility and to take it to a global level is now within reach.”30”
― Roman Krznaric, Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It

“Beecher Stowe was propelled into the public spotlight in 1852, when she published Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a vibrant and moving story that was effectively a political tract against slavery.”
― Roman Krznaric, Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It

“it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.”
― Roman Krznaric, Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It