quotations about empathy
If empathy is no more than a token
I cry a river in the pouring rain
KMFDM
"Save Me"
The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.
CHARLES WAGNER
Justice
Empathy is pointless
Turn your fingernails to claws
THE PHILOSOPHER KINGS
"Fingernails to Claws"
Empathy is a powerful behavior of nurturing. When it is given properly, the receiver can feel that the giver really cares about them, and that what they are going through is not trivial.
WILLIAM E. KRILL
Gentling
Empathy enables us to collapse the dualistic structures that polarize our world into "us" and "them".
VIRGINIA C. FOWLER
foreword, The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni