The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.
Human - Humanity Quotes
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest and riddle of the world!
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Man is the measure of all things.
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Every man beareth the whole stamp of the human condition.
Many writers have talked about the humanitarian trap. By this they usually mean the problem of aid prolonging wars, or giving great powers an excuse either for intervention or nonintervention. But the first and greatest humanitarian trap is this need to simplify, if not actually lie about, the way things are in the crisis zones, […]
