Humanitarianism Quotes

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
Albert Schweitzer

Human, Purpose, Consists

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

Faith, Great, Future

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

History, Sympathy, Writing

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

Christian, Movement, Humanist

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
Adolf Hitler

Stupidity, Expression, Cowardice

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