Top 51 Quotes About Humanitarianism
#2. 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
#3. Bloy was the ultimate weapon against the twentieth century, its mediocrity, its moronic 'engagement,' its cloying humanitarianism; against Sartre, and Camus, and all their political playacting; and against all those sickening formalists, the nouveau roman, the pointless absurdity of it all.
Michel Houellebecq
#4. 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.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#5. The five basic tenets of Islam continue onto the sixth for me. Huquq-ul-Ibaad, or humanitarianism. That it is not proclaimed as obligatory has deeper meaning; as right or wrong are left to human initiatives, its importance would be lost if forced.
-Edhi, A Mirror To The Blind
Tehmina Durrani
#6. No history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leads from the slingshot to the megaton bomb.
Theodore Adorno
#7. Turn God's wrath into mere enlightened disapproval, and you also turn His love into mere humanitarianism.
C.S. Lewis
#8. Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.
Christopher Dawson
#9. You are yet another nincompoop, who, by being at the wrong place at the wrong time," he said, "was able to set humanitarianism back a full century! Begone!" Strong stuff.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#10. I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible
Raoul Wallenberg
#11. What does it mean to protest suffering, as distinct from acknowledging it?
Sontag, Susan
#12. If you want to teach real religion to the kids, throw away the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran and all the scriptures, and teach them the religion of love.
Abhijit Naskar
#13. [S]ex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust was a Jewish issue. These are all humanitarian concerns, transcending any one race, gender, or creed.
Nicholas D. Kristof And Sheryl WuDunn
#14. You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire.
Sarah Vowell
#15. 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
#16. Whereas Jesus and his disciples were distrusted by the state largely because they respected the poor and shared everything, the fundamentalists of the present hour would appear not to know that the poor exist.
James Baldwin
#17. What's attacking me now is a direct humanitarianism ...
Fernando Pessoa
#18. A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover's world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian's world revolves around the world.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#19. In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#20. If I believe in humanity and all that encompasses it including being kind and respectful of others, then I hereby declare that my love extends to gay, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#22. My religion is humanitarianism , which is the basis of every religion in the world.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
#23. 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
#24. Skepticism is my nature. Free Thought is my methodology. Agnosticism is my conclusion. Atheism is my opinion. Humanitarianism is my motivation.
Jerry DeWitt
#25. I myself must also say I believe it is true that in the end humanitarianism will triumph; only I fear that at the same time the world will be one big hospital and each person will be the other person's humane keeper.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#26. Justice not charity, solidarity not pity, opportunity not handouts.
Samantha Nutt
#27. On World Humanitarian Day 2014, thanks to ALL aid workers who carry or have carried out lifesaving work. Salute to our champions
Widad Akreyi
#28. Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
Anita Loos
#29. When the world was flat on its back, what brought it back? American money and American energy, our humanitarianism and our sense of social responsibility for friend and foe alike.
Scott Eyman
#30. 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
#31. Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.
Isabel Paterson
#32. Random Acts of Kindness," he said. "You need some in your life. Everybody does."
"No, I don't have much of a rak, but hey, this is the twenty-third century, you can get anything fixed if you have enough money.
Peter F. Hamilton
#33. 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.
Jean Baudrillard
#34. Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
Adolf Hitler
#35. And most importantly, the next time someone asks you "Who are you?" you must answer in this simple way, with sincerity and conviction: "I am an Earth Citizen
Ilchi Lee
#36. [T]hose who are in a position of strength have a responsibility to protect the weak.
Thomas Cushman
#37. 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
#38. Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile.
Marcel Proust
#39. Vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.
Leo Tolstoy
#40. The ideal in Martial Arts is humanitarianism. Accomplishment uses diligence as a goal.
Yip Man
#41. High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.
H.L. Mencken
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
Albert Schweitzer
#45. 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
#46. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
William Faulkner
#47. All major religious traditions accept that suffering and death are simply part of life. The deep radicalism of humanitarian action is its belief that people are not made to suffer.
David Rieff
#48. Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.
Eric Greitens
#50. Over time, I have come to believe that there is a killer and a saint in all of us. But ... I choose to focus on the future and the *potential* in people.
Agnes Kamara-umunna
#51. If at the present day it has found a warm welcome among certain circles in Europe, it is because all those who hope to derive from humanitarianism a moral code of human kindness for the acceptance of an atheistic society are already implicitly Buddhists.
Jacques Maritain