Sentiments Quotes - Page 15

• The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

  Adam Smith

  Powerful, Mean, Causes

  Adam Smith (2012). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• Let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of religious liberty... Let us hear the dignity of his [man's] nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God... Let it be known, that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments.

  John Adams

  Religious, Men, Liberty

  "The Works of John Adams, Volume 3: Autobiography, Diary, Notes of a Debate in the Senate, Essays". Book edited by Charles Francis Adams, 1851.

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• The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired from their infancy the habit of discussing, of deliberating, and of judging of public affairs, it was in these assemblies of towns or districts that the sentiments of the people were formed in the first place, and their resolutions were taken from the beginning to the end of the disputes and the war with Great Britain.

  John Adams

  Education, War, Taken

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• Before God, I believe the hour has come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it. And I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment. Independence now, and Independence for ever!

  John Adams

  Believe, Heart, Blessing

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• In most cases, obviously, soldiers fought because a government drafted them and gave them a rifle. At every point too, we see the role of nationalistic sentiment, commercial rivalries, and simple greed. But can we ever separate out such motives from the religious? Was that not also true of the medieval crusades?

  Philip Jenkins

  Religious, Simple, Government

  Interview with Scott McKnight, www.patheos.com. January 23, 2016.

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• A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal.

  John Adams

  Ambition, Government, People

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I”, p.158, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.

  George Inness

  Art, Mistake, Men

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• That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, Pernicious, Our Country

  James Russell Lowell (1898). “Poems of James Russell Lowell With Biographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole”, p.521, Library of Alexandria

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• At a certain point in history monuments became associated with kitsch, (it had never previously been so) and one might well ask why this unforeseen aesthetic and ethnic debasement of their values came about, or why monuments have not adapted to the times. Perhaps, instead of evoking authentic religious, patriotic or mystical sentiments, they evoke only the customary ersatz for these sentiments and have suffered the fate of becoming sentimental.

  Gillo Dorfles

  Religious, Patriotic, Fate

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• Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete in itself is surely the most desirable of houses. Our modern house with its cumbersome walls and its foundations planted deep in the ground is nothing better than a prison and more and more prison like does it become the longer we live there, and wear fetters of a association and sentiment.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, House, Mind

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• In a democracy it is necessary that people should learn to endure having their sentiments outraged.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Democracy, Should

  Bertrand Russell, Ray Perkins (Jr.) (2002). “Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor”, p.161, Open Court Publishing

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• It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

  Andre Gide

  Stars, Wish, Literature

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• It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory.

  Teresa of Avila

  Strong, Determination, Perfect

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• I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

  Jules Verne

  Words Love

  Jules Verne (1995). “Around the World in Eighty Days”, p.244, Oxford University Press, UK

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• Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God's truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment.

  Frederick Douglass

  Heart, Roots, Land

  Frederick Douglass, Michael Meyer (1983). “Frederick Douglass: The Narrative and Selected Writings”, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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• A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and noble sentiment ought to be first tested in the kitchen-and then in bed, of course.

  Charles Simic

  Views, Kitchen, Bed

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• Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.

  Winston Churchill

  Pious

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.494, Da Capo Press

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• Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.

  Thomas Reed

  Men, Principles, Sides

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• I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution....The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to cover the whole ground. Although it provides that all men shall enjoy religious freedom, yet it does not provide the manner by which that freedom can be preserved, nor for the punishment of Government officers who refuse to protect the people in their religious rights, punish those mobs, states, or communities who interfere with the rights of the people on account of their religion. Its sentiments are good, but it provides no means of enforcing them.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Religious, Mean, Men

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• Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate . . .

  Edward Gibbon

  Ideas, Recluse, Communicate

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.844, Modern Library

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• The sentiment of fear is nearly allied to that of hatred.

  Edward Gibbon

  Hatred

  Edward Gibbon (1869). “The Crusades: A.D. 1095-1261”, p.53

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• Yeah, I'd say there's probably about a couple of hundred people I admire - but that has nothing to do with what a person does themselves. That's why I never mention these things. You can read a detective novel you really like, but it had no bearing on what you do yourself, you just think, "God, how this guy wove this together!" Or you get into the energy of it. Or you see a poem which makes a great statement about sentiment, but it's not sentimental.

  Tom Verlaine

  Couple, Thinking, People

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• Sentiment is what I am not acquainted with.

  Marjorie Fleming

  'Journal' p. 99

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• I have far more reasons to rather disbelieve that a man besides me suffers when he cries, yet I have far more sentiments, than those great reasons, to instead weep for his, far less likely, sufferings.

  Kedar Joshi

  Men, Suffering, Cry

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• One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.

  David Brooks

  Frustration, Vocabulary, Sound

  "Ask the Author Live: David Brooks on the Composure Class". Live chat with readers, www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2011.

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