Navid Negahban Quotes

When you see someone as a human being, you begin to understand most people are doing what they believe is right. I ask myself, "What if you were wrong? How would you want someone to engage with you?"

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

Everyone deserves compassion.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

It's really never fair to judge people because none of us know what's going on inside anyone else's head.

Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

We have to bring the humanity and compassion back.

I always think you have to show a degree of humanity and sensitivity when you're dealing with people in extreme circumstances.

Men do very little from love, a great deal from hate, most of all from indifference.

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

You treat everyone with respect even though you don’t know them and even though you do not agree with them.

Try and understand--there are views other than yours.

My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from.

I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.

There's a power in empathy.

I think everybody needs to be more empathetic.

In my view, the best of humanity is in our exercise of empathy and compassion. It's when we challenge ourselves to walk in the shoes of someone whose pain or plight might seem so different than yours that it's almost incomprehensible.

I try to treat all of them the same; I try to be a friend to the ballplayers. I treat them like human beings, like I would want to be treated.

Sometimes we are much better at judging people based on how they treat everyone other than ourselves. We make a million excuses for why they treat us how they do.