"A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason."

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"I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name."

Hugh Mackay, Australian Psychologist

Sympathy, Being, Name, Saying

"I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals."

Charles E. Trevelyan, British Politician

Sympathy, People, Growth, Liberals

"In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion."

Frances E. Willard, American Activist

Sympathy, Thought, Fashion

"Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well."

Henry Cabot Lodge, American Politician

Sympathy, Expression

"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."

William James, American Philosopher

Sympathy, Community

"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."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Sympathy, Existence, Happiness, Life

"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."

Richard Russo, American Novelist

Sympathy, People, Character, Books

"Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience."

Evelyn Underhill, English Writer

Sympathy, Kindness, Patience

"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."

Ben Elton, British Comedian

Sympathy, Feeling, Resentment, Victims

"There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

Sympathy, Affliction, Emotion, Humanity

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"I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name."

"I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals."

"In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion."

"Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well."

"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."

"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."

"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."

"Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience."

"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."

"There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe."

Explore more quotes by William R. Alger

"False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis."

"What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny."

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"Words of love, are works of love."

"The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire."

"He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men."

"To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it."

"The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little."

"After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer."

"Public opinion is a second conscience."