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"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama."
"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."
"The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service."
"The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope."
"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."
"The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism."
"A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog."
"An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen."
"For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual."
"To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy."
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