Eli Pariser Quotes

People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.

I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that's my life; that's not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man's shoes.

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.

I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it.

If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.