Breadth Quote by Irving Babbitt Download Open image “The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.” — Irving Babbitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Breadth Humanitarian Lays Stress Sympathy
High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity. — Desire-Joseph Mercier Copy Share Image
“All major religious traditions accept that suffering and death are simply part of life. The deep radicalism of humanitarian action is its belief that… — David Rieff Copy Share Image
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
“So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
The whole essence of humanitarian work and the Geneva Convention is that neutral, impartial organisations can operate during war. — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
It used to be that companies with industrial economies of scale created business success. Now, success will come from the information economies of scale,… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
What is a Person? is a clear and comprehensive reconsideration of the meaning of human personhood as the central core of social structures. With… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life. — George A. Smith Copy Share Image
[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life. — Joseph Girzone Copy Share Image
“The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
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