Humanitarianism Quote by Fernando Pessoa Download Open image “Humanitarianism is rude.” — Fernando Pessoa ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humanitarianism Rude
Humanitarianism is commendable, but not when you're demanding that others share the burdens and expense. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Today humanitarianism is in search of an identity, especially after the war in Iraq. In a perfect world, humanitarianism would not exist. People wouldn't… — Marc Vachon Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian, like the missionary, is often an irreducible enemy of the people he seeks to befriend, because he has not imagination enough to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
“If only, I feel now, if only I could be someone able to see all this as if he had no other relation with… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed!” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I try to say what I feel Without thinking about what I feel. I try to place words right next to my idea So… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To associate is to die. Only my consciousness of myself is real for me; other people are hazy phenomena in this consciousness, and it… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“When it comes to dreams, I’m no different from the errand boy and the seamstress. The only thing that distinguishes me from them is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“There is no time for patience - there is no time for diplomacy - there is no time for policies, legislations and meaningless paperwork.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“[T]hose who are in a position of strength have a responsibility to protect the weak.” — Thomas Cushman Copy Share Image
It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism, humanitarianism, animal rights - all those… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
“Being Jewish did not compromise the humanitarian and universalist ideals of my close relatives who, having experienced persecution close hand, were more concerned with… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good? — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
“O my brave Almighty Human, with the ever-effulgent flow of courage, conscience and compassion, turn yourself into a vivacious humanizer, and start walking with… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“This is what my Christmas looks like, And my Hanukkah, Ramadan, Diwali 'n Onam. I don't get to celebrate any of the festivals, So… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Keep struggling, o brave soldier - keep struggling till politicians become an extinct species and politics an extinct profession. The mission is, not to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I am no God. I am no Messiah. I am no divine incarnation. I am but a human in the service of humans.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image