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Whatever is done for men takes away from the stimulus and necessity of doing things for themselves. The value of legislative as an agent in human advancement has been much over-estimated. No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident or the drunken sober.

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Irving Babbitt

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

Humanitarian, Knowledge, Lays, Stress, Sympathy
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

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Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

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For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

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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.

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It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it. . . for the supreme act of judgment and selection.

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