"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."
-Irving Babbitt
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"The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.“
-Irving Babbitt
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"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
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"Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type."
-Irving Babbitt
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"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."
-Irving Babbitt
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"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."
-Irving Babbitt
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"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."
-Irving Babbitt
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"I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals."
-Charles Trevelyan
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"Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible that too was refused by his inhuman jailer."
-William Hull
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"I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg."
-Peter Storey
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"It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy."
-Alfred E. Smith
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"There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous."
-Les Aspin
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"Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink."
-W. H. Davies
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