"Total war is the most humane in the…" — C.S. Lewis
"Total war is the most humane in the long run."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I…
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to…
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
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The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of…
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich,…
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own…
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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us…
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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…
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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the…
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It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the…
— Cesar Chavez
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Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do…
— Julia Child
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One can not be just if one is not humane.
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I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The…
— Albert Schweitzer
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These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated,…
— Edith Wharton
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Niko's angular face caught a flicker of firelight and Tempus saw his future there: sharp purpose, discipline, and power in…
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
— Seneca the Younger
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Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you…
— Adam Michnik
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort…
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