I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that…

Gregory Maguire
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I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature. ✨ Gregory Maguire (2013). The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz, p.164, Harper Collins
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I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature. ✨ Gregory Maguire (2013). The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz, p.164, Harper Collins

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