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"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."
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"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."
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"I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one."
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"I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with."
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"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."
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"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."
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"Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!"
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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."
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"There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate."
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"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."
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"They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George."
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"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."
Sympathy
"Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself."
Faith
"The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people."
Leadership
"The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality."
Balance
"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama."
Democracy
"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."
Discipline
"To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it."
Failure
"Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn."
Chance
"The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service."
Service
"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment."
Happiness
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