Ancient Quote by Frans de Waal

“Empathy is not only a personal feeling; it can be a potent force for political and social change. And thus the suppression or denial…

— Dan Rather

Empathy is an uncomfortable force in politics.

— Dawn Foster

Some people naturally have a sense of empathy and an understanding of how to bring their followers to do things. They become great politicians.

— Colin Powell

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…

— Paul Bloom

“Empathy is the mental habit that moves us beyond thinking of people as laboratory rats or standard deviations.”

— Tim Brown

“I worry that our nation today suffers from a deficit of empathy, and this is especially true of many in positions of national leadership.…

— Dan Rather

“Politics aside, empathy is not about being nice or agreeing with the other side. It’s about understanding them. Empathy helps us learn the position…

— Chris Voss

Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“I vaguely remembered hearing psychologists say there was a preponderance of psychopaths at the top—in the corporate and political worlds—a clinical absence of empathy…

— Jon Ronson

“Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an…

— Edward O. Wilson

My empathy for poor people comes from having been one of them for so long, from knowing that their humanity is more complex and…

— Michael Eric Dyson

If the only people we are able to extend empathy to are those who are like us, who come from the same country we…

— Clint Smith