They commonly celebrate those beaches only which have a hotel on them, not those which have a humane house alone. But I wished to ...see that seashore where man's works are wrecks; to put up at the true Atlantic House, where the ocean is land-lord as well as sea-lord, and comes ashore without a wharf for the landing; where the crumbling land is the only invalid, or at best is but dry land, and that is all you can say of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machin...e, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who ...kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement--but i...t passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to prod...uce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it i...s not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic, of the men and the matrons sitting in the thriving independent families all over the land, that they shall be duly cared for; that they shall taste justice and love from all to whom we have delegated the office of dealing with them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of... our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You use the phrase "brutal Rebels." Don't be cheated in that way. There are enough "brutal Rebels" no doubt, but we have brutal of...ficers and men too. I have had men brutally treated by our own officers on this raid [to Lynchburg, Va.]. And there are plenty of humane Rebels. I have seen a good deal of it on this trip. War is a cruel business and there is brutality in it on all sides, but it is very idle to get up anxiety on account of any supposed peculiar cruelty on the part of Rebels. Keepers of prisons in Cincinnati, as well as in Danville, are hard-hearted and cruel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some minds have a greater facility of throwing off impressions, and are, as it were, more transparent or porous than others. Thus ...the French present a marked contrast to the English in this respect. A Frenchman addresses you at once with a sort of lively indifference; an Englishman is more on his guard, feels his way, and is either exceedingly silent, or lets you into his whole confidence, which he cannot so well impart to an entire stranger. Again, a Frenchman is naturally humane: an Englishman is, I should say, only friendly by habit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »