Humanitarianism

In abstract love of

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

If all alms were

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago. Friedrich Nietzsche

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. … Read more

Isn’t it better to

Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good? Denis Diderot

It’s really important to

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

Yet humanitarianism is not

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one Christopher Dawson

Men that talk of

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them. Ben Jonson

It hurt the economic

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” … Read more

The dignity of the

The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored

Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed. Anita Loos