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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can’t be learnt in lecture halls.
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ is a great one.
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.