humanism

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At its best, “The Innocents of Florence” is an example of a complicated humanism: An empathetic study of the perpetual interplay between good intentions, human frailties and imperfect outcomes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

“To divorce sexuality from humanism and personality is a mistake,” the late therapist Joy Browne, who then hosted a San Francisco radio show, told Newsweek in 1982.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2024

Instead of exalting form over substance, courts should recognize the humanism of legal dilemmas and focus on it.

From Salon • Feb. 16, 2024

On those points, I adhere to a fundamental humanism.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024

Only such real, meaningful actions as those which are sincerely motivated from a deep sense of humanism and moral responsibility can get at the basic causes that produce the racial explosions in America today.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey