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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane

Quote by Irving Babbitt

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about aspiration

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

Quote by Frederick Law Olmsted about power, sensibility, destruction, truth, world

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about politics, example, world, society