Humanitarianism Quotes
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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.
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I’m inclined to think,’ said Fen, ‘that neither opposing nor advocating change makes much difference to the sum total of human misery. History suggests that it stays constant in quantity, if not in kind. Science rids us of plague but endows us with the atom bomb. Humanitarianism rids us of sweated labour but offers us the horrors of political agitation in its place. There’s a choice of evils, but that’s all.
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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.
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Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
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Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
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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.
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My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.
