Humane Quote by Irving Babbitt Download Open image “Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.” — Irving Babbitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humane Italian
There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
To behave "humanely" it is perfectly possible to do without the notion of "humanity." — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
“Years later he would add that Italians have “no other aim than to live” because they “discovered a long time ago that there is… — Gerald Martin Copy Share Image
Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise? — Confucius Copy Share Image
The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“I do not give a damn whether a person is a scientist, a philosopher or a theologian If that person cannot recognize the basic… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
To strive to be perfect is going down the road of self-destruction. To strive to be yourself is going down the road of greatness. — Isaiah Harden (Me Copy Share Image
We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted… — David Hume Copy Share Image
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't have a hands-on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
