I asked myself one day, 'Would it be humane of me to…

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time…

— Vaclav Havel

Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

— John Milton

“I do not give a damn whether a person is a scientist, a philosopher or a theologian If that person cannot recognize the basic…

— Abhijit Naskar

Let's dream for living in a world where animals are equally respected as humans. It's also high time for us to realise the very…

— Chandrababu VS

To strive to be perfect is going down the road of self-destruction. To strive to be yourself is going down the road of greatness.

— Isaiah Harden (Me

We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted…

— David Hume

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every…

— Bertrand Russell

I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived.

— Albert Einstein

I don't have a hands-on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I…

— Wayne Pacelle

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of…

— John Taylor Gatto

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and…

— Mark Strand

Being compassionate towards hapless creatures is the most humane deed one could do to the nature, regardless of the size, shape or looks of…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes,…

— Anton Chekhov

After many years of thinking, reading and writing and looking, I came to believe that there are two basic, essential values which are indispensable…

— Zygmunt Bauman