“Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man’s wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.”
– Angelina Grimke
“It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.”
– Alfred E. Smith
“I didn’t feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone’s leg.”
– Peter Storey
“I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people’s minds better than we Liberals.”
– Charles Trevelyan
“I don’t think it’s an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.”
– Joe Cornish
“IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom’s Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.”
– Carl Clinton Van Doren
“Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper – someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I’m sure my wife has your sympathy, but it’s made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.”
– Mark Feuerstein
“More negatives write than call. It’s a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.”
– John Hall
“Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.”
– W. H. Davies
“There’s a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration’s problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.”
– Les Aspin
“Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.”
– William Hull
“It’s hard for me to think of others because I’m not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.”
– Alan Hovhaness
“Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.”
– Stafford Cripps
“The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I’ve seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.”
– Anthony Storr
“You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.”
– Laura Carmichael
“This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.”
– Tom Paulin
“You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.”
– Ted Olson
“I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.”
– Mary Beth Whitehead
“A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.”
– Morris Raphael Cohen
“Sympathy with nature is part of a good person’s religion.”
– Francis Herbert Hedge
“Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.”
– George William Russell
“California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?”
– Denis Kearney
“Although I’m Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!”
– David Chalmers
“I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.”
– Dorothy Day
“Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.”
– George William Norris
“My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.”
– Brownie McGhee
“When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it’s merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.”
– Alexei Navalny
“We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom.”
– Mohammed Morsi
“There’s something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.”
– Michael Ealy
“I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.”
– Terry Prachett