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Sentiment is the greatest weakness of all. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s5e14: In Purgatory’s Shadow, Garak to Bashir
They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart of a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered. Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter, 1948
A man’s sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness. Leland Stanford
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. Rebecca West
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. Adolf Loos
It’s not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. Norman Mailer
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. Edward Abbey
Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims
If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in. Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man
All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right; because they have a reference to something beyond themselves, to wit, real matter of fact; and are not always conformable to that standard. David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays