Collective Empathy Quotes

The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other's enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.

Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.

We need to put love back into the world remind the world that love is important. We're all one.

Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

I think America is moving to a much more connected, inclusive and compassionate place.

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.

Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same than we are different. That may be the most essential message of all, as we help our children grow toward being caring, compassionate, and charitable adults.

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

The more people I meet, the farther out of my own little world I go, the more I see that we are all alike. And there isn't one of us who can afford to pick up the rock in the glass house.

I wish I knew how we achieve the goal of world peace. My bumper sticker reads 'Just Another Version of You.' The sooner we agree that we're just other versions of each other - we human beings - the sooner we will find some sense of world peace.

Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.

Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

To bear witness to all the unnecessary suffering on the planet and make ourselves available to service - whatever that means for each of us. We go deep in our personal relationships in America, but we need to go deep in our public relationships as well.

Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.

One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.

Among the most striking things that I have learned is how much we have in common. I've sat down with people everywhere, discussing what was in their hearts and on their minds. And it doesn't take long to find commonality, which is often overlooked, ignored, dismissed, and rejected otherwise.

Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.

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 perhaps realize.