Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the cultivation of the religious sentiment represses licentiousnessinspires respect for law and order, and gives strength to the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions. — William Hamilton Maxwell Copy Share Image
The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I'm an extremely family oriented person… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In most cases, obviously, soldiers fought because a government drafted them and gave them a rifle. At every point too, we see… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in… — George Washington Copy Share Image
No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute,… — William Borah Copy Share Image
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, Peaceably if we can, forcibly if… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
She felt as if she bled her regret and loneliness from her very pores, and yet she could not shape those feelings… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
No measure can be more desirable, whether viewed with an eye to its intrinsic importance, or to the general sentiment and wish… — George Washington Copy Share Image
