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For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause…
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him…
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility…
The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect…
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in…
A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about…
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got… — Laurence Sterne
A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for. — Richard Wurmbrand
I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement.… — Leslie Weatherhead
As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one… — Baruch Spinoza
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his… — Agnes Repplier
Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason… — James Anthony Froude
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed. — Arthur Helps
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw
He chose the boy he thought most likely to be a danger to him," said Dumbledore. And notice this, Harry. He chose,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And… — Rod Serling
Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law - Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek'd… — Alfred Lord Tennyson

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