Zitat des Tages über Sympathie / Sympathy:
My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
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.
I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.
What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?
There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.
I'm a champion for personal differences. I have no sympathy for drug companies that can't figure out how to make personalized medicine. We could generalize that to 'All society should be much more personalized.'
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.
I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.
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.
I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.
I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible.
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacation. I don't want to quit. I don't want sympathy. The cry of my heart is 'Just Give Me Jesus.'
September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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.
In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was 'the son of a half-breed Indian squaw' who would put opponents under the guillotine.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.
There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration.
Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.
I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.
We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.
