• "The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection." - Irving Babbitt Tweet
• "I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with." - John Irving Tweet
• "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 Tweet
• "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 Tweet
• "One often calms one's grief by recounting it." - Pierre Corneille Tweet
• "Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them." - Ben Elton Tweet
• "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 Tweet
• "I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them." - Shinzo Abe Tweet
• "Grief is only the memory of widowed affections." - James Martineau Tweet
• "A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason." - William R. Alger Tweet