 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. |
| If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism. |
| We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. |
| Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards. |
| If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. |
| Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution. |
| A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice. |
| The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. |
| The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people. |
| Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. |
| The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope. |
| An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen. |
| The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service. |
| Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power. |
| A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses. |
| Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane. |
| We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration. |
| The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality. |
| Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism. |
| A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog. |
