Country Quote by Mary Robinson

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

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

— Mary Robinson

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…

— Nicole Krauss

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

Empathy seems to be seen as a weakness. We condition people to withdraw it to succeed. But really, it needs to be re-seen as…

— Matt Bellamy

I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there is a…

— J. K. Rowling

Almost all human beings have the capacity for empathy. Everyone has the potential to be at least troubled, or feel genuine anguish, about the…

— Owen Jones

There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we…

— Edwidge Danticat

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem from a…

— Clint Smith

Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.

— Dalai Lama

It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some…

— Paul Bloom