I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of... →
Desmond Tutu
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... →
Eamon de Valera
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire
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... →
Lech Walesa
Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a... →
James D. Watson
This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in... →
Faye Wattleton
AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
Edmund White
I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.
Mary Beth Whitehead
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt Whitman
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less... →
Oscar Wilde