He would make many melancholy reflections upon the precariousness of human life…And when all this fine philosophy was over, when all these humane sentiments had been once fairly expressed, he would pursue his business or his pleasure, take his repose or his diversion, with the same ease and tranquility as if no such accident had happened.
This figure is a dreamy quietist of peaceable disposition, who savors apolitical friendship, nurses a skeptical outlook, and looks to an anti-theoretical politics of homey tradition and humane, but chastened, sentiment to guide him.
Catherine Latimer, the executive director of the John Howard Society of Canada, a nonprofit organization that works with offenders and promotes just and humane responses to crime, echoes this sentiment: "They're in prison as punishment, not for punishment," she told VICE.
Catherine Latimer, the executive director of the John Howard Society of Canada, a non-profit organization that works with offenders and promotes just and humane responses to crime, echoes this sentiment: "They're in prison as punishment, not for punishment.
That newly humane approach seemed to directly echo sentiments from August Heckscher, a writer and cultural advisor to the Kennedy White House whom Venturi quotes at length in "Complexity and Contradiction". Heckscher, in his 1962 book "The Public Happiness," wrote about the dangers of any effort to impose civic order by force alone, as the police tried to do in Ferguson.
Empathy as sentiment (aka sympathy) may be humane, but it can cause a leader to make poor decisions.
Maybe you think this is an inhumane sentiment, expressed paradoxically in service of a humane wish for justice.
Emboldened by the nationalist sentiments across Europe, the countries boycotted a humane European solution for the refugee crisis and introduced a series of authoritarian measures, targeting the judiciary, the media and minorities.
