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People aren't inherently sympathetic.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

Discrimination is a disease.

The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.

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.

I'm not sympathetic. I have zero sympathy. I understand about emotional eating, I understand how painful the process can be, but I also understand that change is possible.

When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as being people who have well being and comforts, I think it takes a very insensitive, tough person not to feel they need to do something.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.