Daniel Lubetzky Quotes

Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race.

Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.

When two people talk with mutual respect and listen with a real interest in understanding another point of view, when they try to put themselves in the place of another, to get inside their skin, they change the world, even if it is only by a minute amount, because they are establishing equality between two human beings.

We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others.

the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.

Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.