Affection Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn…

— Alain de Botton

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

— Bertrand Russell

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and…

— W. H. Auden

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come natural ...

— Anonymous

In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses if sought…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours.…

— C. S. Lewis

“Civilized beings regard the act of intercourse as the highest expression of romantic love. One need only observe the behavior of animals, however, to…

— Fiona Paul

In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony

— Gautama Buddha

[Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're born, child,…

— Dalai Lama

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound…

— Luc de Clapiers

It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.

— Paul Valery

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

— Arthur Koestler