Sentiments Quotes - Page 36

• The offence is what is improperly called the death of an infant, who has ceased to be, before knowing what existence is, a result of a nature not to give the slightest inquietude to the most timid imagination; and which can cause no regrets but to the very person who, through a sentiment of shame and pity, has refused to prolong a life begun under the auspices of misery.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Regret, Knowing, Giving

  Jeremy Bentham, Etienne Dumont (1871). “Theory of Legislation”, p.265

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• Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Ideas, Moral

  Herbert Spencer (1893). “Ethics of Individual Life”

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• I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you see examples of sympathy, empathy, reciprocity, a willingness to follow social rules. Dogs are a good example of a species that have and obey social rules; that's why we like them so much, even though they're large carnivores.

  Frans de Waal

  Dog, Animal, Empathy

  "Confessions of a Lonely Atheist" by Natalie Angier, partners.nytimes.com. January 14, 2001.

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• I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Religious, Organization, Political

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• Tut, tut. We can't let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science.

  K. W. Jeter

  Let Me, Mere

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• It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this sentiment generally admitted we should not see such tenacious adherence to what men deem the opinions and doctrines of Christ while at the same time in every day practise is exhibited anything but a likeness to Christ.

  Lucretia Mott

  Christian, Men, Doctrine

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• pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.

  Francoise Sagan

  Uplifting, Military, Pity

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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• The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's dread (that teenage thrall with subversion) inspires their fealty to product.

  Armond White

  Teenage, Dark, Past

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• I understand the sentiments of the Palestinians when they see the settlements being built. The meaning from the Palestinian perspective is that Israel takes more land, that the Palestinian state will be impossible, the Israel policy is to take more and more land day after day and that at the end of the day we’ll say that it is impossible, we already have the land and cannot create the state.

  Tzipi Livni

  Israel, Land, Perspective

  "Open door: Misleading pullquotes" by Chris Elliott, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2011.

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• Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fate, Arrogance, World

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.49

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• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling

  Fanny Burney

  Character, Wish, Behaviour

  "The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney", vol. 1, p. 8, 1768.

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• A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as philosophy, that the difference of fortune makes less difference in happiness than is vulgarly imagined; such a one does not measure out degrees of esteem according to the rent-rolls of his acquaintance. ... his internal sentiments are more regulated by the personal characters of men, than by the accidental and capricious favors of fortune.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Character, Men

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• That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Law, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.16, Hackett Publishing

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• The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

  Emile Durkheim

  Average, Creative, Belief

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• No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

  John Peter Zenger

  Writing, Political, Liberty

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• Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Water, Wheels, Politician

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.302

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• The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fiction, Preference, Novel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.247, Harvard University Press

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• Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of the lumberman. But popular opinion, combined with action, if directed intelligently towards the setting apart of some one section of the noble redwood forests... will, I believe, save for our present delight and for that of the generations who come after us, at least one grand forest of the Sequoia sempervirens such as the world cannot show elsewhere, such as a thousand years cannot reproduce.

  Frank Howard Clark

  Believe, Years, Generations

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• Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.

  William Allen White

  Government, Democracy, Majority

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• The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Tolerance, Brotherhood

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric of human sentiment and affection.

  David Hume

  Beautiful, Science, Fabric

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.675, Delphi Classics

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• Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

  Petrarch

  Men, Enemy, Undone

  "An Examination of the Advantages of Solitude and of Its Operations". Book by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann, 1808.

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• The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.

  Elaine Pagels

  Religious, Jesus, Betrayal

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• Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

  Robert Barron

  Love Is, Feelings, Willing

  Robert Barron (2011). “Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith”, p.48, Image

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• There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the opinions of all, the leveling up of universal sense which is called public sentiment. That is the ever-present regulator and police of humanity.

  Thomas Reed

  Race, Police, Humanity

  Thomas Brackett Reed, Mrs. Susan Prentice Merrill Reed (1911). “Orations and addresses”

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