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Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty. — James Q. Wilson

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob. — Seneca The Younger

How short a period often reverses the character of our sentiments, rendering that which yesterday we despised, today desirable. — Ann Radcliffe

The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when ... the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which is not full of God. — Harriet Martineau

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education. — Bertrand Russell

Take as much care with words expressing your sentiments as you will crafting your doctoral dissertation. — Marisha Pessl

Who can call a man dead whose words still hush and whose sentiments move? — Clive Barker

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible — Gerhard Richter

Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice. — Susan B. Anthony

Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't. — Raheel Farooq

You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. — John Green

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written. — Andre Gide

California is the most reactionary state in America. Fascist sentiments are very strong here. — Ilya Ilf

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sentiment is what I am not acquainted with. — Marjorie Fleming

But ah cannae even endorse these sentiments as they are at best peripheral tae the moment. — Irvine Welsh

Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world. — Dogen

A crowd is only impressed by excessive sentiments. Exaggerate, affirm, resort to repetition, and never attempt to prove anything by reasoning. — Jon Ronson

I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. — Rebecca West

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world. — John F. Kennedy

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority. — Ambrose Bierce

ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend. — Ambrose Bierce

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. — Ambrose Bierce

A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them. — Jill Lepore

A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe. — Joseph Conrad

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness. — Vincent Massey

I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture. — Mili Avital

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. — Ugo Betti

One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments. — Aldous Huxley

Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments. — Meg Whitman

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. — Norman Mailer

Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating. — Mason Cooley

Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased. — Maria Montessori

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero. — James Otis

Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal. — Leslie Jamison

He who sows discord in his own house will inherit the wind. Proverbs 11:19 — Anonymous

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. — George Sand

The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art. — Caspar David Friedrich

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments. — Wilfrid Laurier

Human nature...is more powerfully acted on through imagination and sentiments than through intellect and reason. — Christine Kinealy

We're not used to seeing any videogames character express sentiments like fear, uncertainty or remorse. — Rhianna Pratchett

It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself. — Jocelyn Murray

When I approach a child he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become. — Louis Pasteur

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it. — John Galsworthy

My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones. — Adolf Eichmann

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore De Balzac

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. — Aldous Huxley

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence. — James Madison

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

2387. Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool? (My sentiments exactly!) — Olav Laudy

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. — John Stuart Mill

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also. — Thomas Jefferson

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture. — Edgar Degas

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments. — Georgette Heyer

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. — Benjamin Disraeli

There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures. — Ida Tarbell

Croats are not prepared for the future yet. They are still divided with the sentiments of the past. — Vinko Vrbanic

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments. — Joseph Joubert

Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases. — Richard Yates

[Nostalgic sentiments] are nothing other than the rosy illumination of a past that has been spared the shadows of the present. — Georg Simmel

Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality. — Swami Vivekananda

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
February 22, 1861 — Abraham Lincoln

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top. — Italo Calvino

Sometimes sentiments were better left in song. — Tania James

The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself. — Pablo Picasso

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. — Cormac McCarthy

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me. — Jules Verne

One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments. — Swami Vivekananda

Some people value sentiments over diamonds. — Cassandra Clare

I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not. — Akshay Kumar

There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well. — Orhan Pamuk

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality. — George Eliot

Most wise men, in their private sentiments, have ever treated hereditary right with contempt; yet — Thomas Paine

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment
never goes ahead of it because he depends on it ... — Lucy Stone

is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions. — Edith Wharton

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments ... — Samuel Johnson

The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition. — Adam Smith

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be. — Bertrand Russell

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief. — Eugene Kennedy

Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate ... — Edward Gibbon

The principled man is merely one whose ancestors were ruthlessly unprincipled, affording him the option of acting upon fine sentiments. — Lynn Cullen

The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me. — Andrew Solomon

These are our precious things. Simple things. A currency of sentiments. — Fennel Hudson

In a democracy it is necessary that people should learn to endure having their sentiments outraged ... — Bertrand Russell

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature. — Andre Gide

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment. — Blaise Pascal

I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country. — Naoto Kan

The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics. — Lyle W. Dorsett

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust. — George Washington

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other. — Robert Barron

That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong." — James Russell Lowell

The sentiment of fear is nearly allied to that of hatred. — Edward Gibbon

The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about
sentiment. — Agatha Christie

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. — Charlotte Bronte

We are such volatile creatures, we finally feel sentiments we feign — Benjamin Constant

Nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse