Liam Cunningham Quotes

We all have that capacity to reach out to people we don't even know and care about them ...

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

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.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

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

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

We're a compassionate nation.

The more empathy you have and the more connected you are to society, the better off you'll be.

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

Fraternity and compassion are written into nature's DNA.

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

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

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.