“I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.”
Jo Walton book Among Others
Source: Among Others
Source: So You've Been Publicly Shamed
“I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.”
Jo Walton book Among Others
Source: Among Others
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Dialogue between Russell and his daughter Katharine, as quoted in My Father – Bertrand Russell (1975)
Attributed from posthumous publications
Ignatius Sancho (1729–1780) British composer, writer and grocer
(from vol 2, letter 42: 9 Oct 1779, to Mr M___ ) [describing a friend]
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Variant: Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
Source: Margaret Thatcher
Jack Donovan (1974) American activist, editor and writer
ibid
Becoming A Barbarian (2016)
“Nothing divided people more deeply than how they felt about cats.”
Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) English novelist, poet, critic, teacher
Source: Difficulties with Girls (1988), Ch. 19, p. 274
“When people work in a place that cares about them, they contribute a lot more than duty.”
Dennis Hayes (1950) founder of Hayes Microcomputer Products
Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989) Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973.