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"But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy."
"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."
"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."
"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay."
"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."
"It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy."
"A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy."
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"A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice."
"Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type."
"Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards."
"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power."
"Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon."
"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment."
"A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog."
"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."
"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."
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