Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.
Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.
Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies.
If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.
One can not be just if one is not humane.
I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
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