"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection." ― Irving Babbitt Topic(s): Sympathy More From Irving Babbitt "The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy." "Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type." "For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual." More In Sympathy "No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?"― Lee Iacocca "Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."― Benjamin Disraeli "It’s hard for me to think of others because I’m not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century."― Alan Hovhaness