• "It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere." - Terry Eagleton Tweet
• "Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched." - Paul Harris Tweet
• "The only cure for grief is action." - George Henry Lewes Tweet
• "When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over." - George MacDonald Tweet
• "Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago." - Eamon de Valera Tweet
• "A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason." - William R. Alger Tweet
• "What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like." - Saint Augustine Tweet
• "Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering." - Carl Hiaasen Tweet
• "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." - Irving Babbitt Tweet
• "I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." - Agatha Christie Tweet