Humanitarianism Quotes

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.

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.