Andre Gide Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

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  Leadership, Patience, Peace

• So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

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  Inspirational, Honesty, Integrity

• The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.

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  Lying, Loss, Sacrifice

• Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

  Andre Gide

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

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