The ideologue cries, “Follow me, and I will lead you to the Earthly Paradise!” But no Earthly Paradise exists, or can exist. It is entirely possible, nevertheless, to contrive an Earthly Hell. Once in power, the ideologue becomes the humanitarian with the guillotine. For this ideologue, in the line of George Orwell, is the man […]
Humanitarian Quotes
The label Humanism is odd… but it is not arbitrary: it originally described the style of the ancients: Litterae humaniores, the more human letters, meaning a literature less abstract than mediaeval philosophy and expressed in a more elegant grammar and concise vocabulary… Their negative view was unfair; the Humanists owed more to the past than […]
