Samuel Johnson Quotes
Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.
Johnson, Samuel. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Vol. 2, Arthur Murphy (Ed.), Jones & Company, 1825, p. 210.
She recognized, long before most other politicians, that individual cases and situations produce more empathy than a problem seen as affecting an abstract mass. FDR was another you was aware if this and used it very effectively, in contrast to his predecessor, Herbert Hoover, who was a great administrator but not much moved by individual suffering and problems.
Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Religiously, he was a devout Anglican, and politically a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".
