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  • 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.

  • Humanitarianism is rude.

    "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.
  • It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th century legislation, came down from the top, out of aa nobleman's private feelings about the Gospel, or that the abolition of the slave trade was achieved, not through the operation of some "law" of profit and loss, but peurlet as the result of tyhe new humanitarianism of the Evangelicals.

    Hurt   Loss   Law  
  • His (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he seems to have had little love for, or even interest in, humanity in particular. He saw the people with whom he dealt, his comrades, not as individuals but as receptacles for his ideas. On that basis, and no other, they were judged. He judged man not by their moral qualities but by their views, or rather the degree to which they accepted his.

    Passion   Men   Views  
    Paul Johnson (2013). “Modern Times: A History of the World From the 1920s to the Year 2000”, Hachette UK
  • I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests.

    "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.
  • The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.

    Heaven   Kingdoms   Rich  
    John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne. With a memoir by H. Alford”, p.196
  • Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one

  • It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.

    "What would Rousseau make of our selfish age?" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.
  • 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 - are one and the same.

  • The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.

  • 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 deplete a civilization's vital energies and weaken its defensive or affirmative capacities.

  • I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs -- there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.

    Military   Believe   Evil  
    Linus Pauling, Barbara Marinacci (1995). “Linus Pauling in His Own Words: Selections From His Writings, Speeches and Interviews”, p.163, Simon and Schuster
  • If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

    Long Ago   Pity   Alms  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.51, Penguin
  • Humanitarianism needs no apology, even when its objects are Russians or Communists. Unless we recover that concern and feel it toward all men without exception, including those who are on the other side in every fratricidal dispute, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history.

    Apology   Men   Needs  
    "The Citizen Decides: A Guide to Responsible Thinking in Time of Crisis".
  • Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of signals as its individual self, choose to give up its life in aid of someone else?

    Giving Up   Animal   Self  
    Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam
  • As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

  • The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and malades imaginaires of politics, premature ejaculators of posthistory and hyperchondriacs of the dead body of ideology and morality.

  • 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 be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.

    William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.107, Ludwig von Mises Institute
  • 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 them at all, that we recoil and hide our eyes, and no one has ever cringed at the sight of a soybean factory. I also know phony arguments when I hear them--unbridled appetite passing itself off as altruism, and human arrogance in the guise of solemn 'duty.' We must, as C.S. Lewis advises, 'reject with detestation that covert propoganda for cruelty which tries to drive mercy out of the world by calling it names such as 'Humanitarianism' and 'Sentimentality.

    Eye   Sight   Names  
  • In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

  • vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

  • 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 claim to be God-loving men and women, but who, nevertheless, encourage by their patronage the killing of animals merely to gratify the cravings of appetite.

    Children   Animal   Men  
  • There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power - and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand.

    Baseball   Running   Home  
  • Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile.

    Marcel Proust (2015). “Remembrance of Things Past Time Regained”, p.274, Marcel Proust
  • The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.

  • Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.

    Rights   People   Evil  
  • High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.

  • In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

  • 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 be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man.

    Character   Men   Views  
    William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.107, Ludwig von Mises Institute
  • 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 one.

    H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.17, Vintage
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