The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of liberty and happiness. . . beyond the Atlantic. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries.
[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.
Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.
A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.
All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.
Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!
I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible
The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which is not full of God.
I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not.
Each tree has its own personality, i chose them by the way I felt at the moment. Sometimes they even change my sentiments. It's kind of a spiritual experience.
Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.
We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.
Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.
There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.