societal empathy Quotes

Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.

We have yet to learn how to retain our humaneness when assembled in masses.

If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it.

Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.

How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn't right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don't believe in other people.

The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!

A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.

A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.

It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause for pity. Rather it is a cause for compassion.

Competitiveness is just as much a part of our nature as empathy. The ideal, in my view, is a democratic system with a social market economy, because it takes both tendencies into account.