"Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful."
-Irving Babbitt
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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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"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."
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"The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy."
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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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"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."
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"The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people."
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"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
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"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other."
-Pythagoras
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"I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world."
-Lana Del Rey
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"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."
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"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
-Amelia Earhart
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