Humanitarianism Quotes

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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 of this progress,… — Irving Babbitt
As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism. — Leo Tolstoy
It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism, humanitarianism, animal rights - all those things… — Daryl Hannah
The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising weakness, since they… — Guillaume Faye
The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall… — William Graham Sumner
Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism. — Gautama Buddha
Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one — Christopher Dawson
I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs -- there is the… — Linus Pauling
Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history. — Ralph Barton Perry
I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot bear to see… — Matthew Scully
It is strange to hear people talk of Humanitarianism, who are members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals, and who… — Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish
A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained… — Don Cupitt
My religion is humanitarianism , which is the basis of every religion in the world. — Abdul Sattar Edhi
A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about… — H. L. Mencken
High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with. — H. L. Mencken
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile. — Marcel Proust
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because… — Ben Jonson

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