The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . . — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental. — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side. — Thomas Reed Copy Share Image
Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business. — Victor Pinchuk Copy Share Image
“Religious sentiments are many a times much above reality. All are aware of reality but blinded by faith and faith has always… — Dr. Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“We are social and political creatures but foremost we are a biological one. Our feelings, sentiments, emotions and attractions are generally because… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. “I miss you,”… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about… — Radha Mitchell Copy Share Image
The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based… — Jedediah M. Grant Copy Share Image
I understand the sentiments of the Palestinians when they see the settlements being built. The meaning from the Palestinian perspective is that… — Tzipi Livni Copy Share Image
The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I am for relying for internal defense on our militia solely till actual invasion, and for such a naval force only as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
At the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment],… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Said an opponent to me after my last protest was sent in, what party would you vote for, if you could? Neither.… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that a good mother gives her children a feeling of trust and stability. She is their earth. She is the… — Katharine Butler Hathaway Copy Share Image
It is odd that a value/virtue that plays such a central role in dramatic literature has played such a small role in… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
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