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Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice. -- Adolf Hitler
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose. -- Albert Schweitzer
Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history. -- Ralph Barton Perry
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism. -- Irving Babbitt
Humanitarianism is rude. -- Fernando Pessoa
In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with. -- H. L. Mencken
The ideal in Martial Arts is humanitarianism. Accomplishment uses diligence as a goal. -- Yip Man
My religion is humanitarianism , which is the basis of every religion in the world. -- Abdul Sattar Edhi
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good? -- Denis Diderot
Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one -- Christopher Dawson
Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one. -- Christopher Dawson
As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism. -- Leo Tolstoy
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. -- Gautama Buddha
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
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. -- Daryl Hannah
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. -- Linus Pauling
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
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. -- Guillaume Faye
Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies. -- Pankaj Mishra
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. -- Vaclav Havel
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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. -- Terry Eagleton
A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget] ... how utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was. -- Don Cupitt
vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism. -- Leo Tolstoy
Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed. -- Anita Loos
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

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