“Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.”– Ben Elton Related Quotes “If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.”– Moliere “Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.”– Florence Nightingale “I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.”– Lech Walesa