We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I always get that. Who are you? Here's who I am: I'm that dog that dropped off down at the humane society,… — Jim McElwain Copy Share Image
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
The missing link between animals and a truly humane mankind is man himself, who does not yet see himself as a part… — Michael Fox Copy Share Image
“It's not the most advanced society we should be aiming to build that only cares for efficiency, rather our aim should be… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Germany was a parliamentary democracy with many, many humane and decent people who kept writing in their journals - I've read these… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As we put into all our schools more humane education, and foster the spirit of justice and kindness toward the "lower" creatures,… — Miriam A. Ferguson Copy Share Image
If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
The "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits," this good fellow carried hidden in his… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane,… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
“Rationalism is imperative in the pursuit of truth, whereas the pursuit of a harmonious global progress demands a human to be simply… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Volumptuous women look good. Ignorant messages from mass media tell women what size to be, but female qualities-a softness, a soothing capacity… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined… — David Walker Copy Share Image
You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not… — Gerard Depardieu Copy Share Image
I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact,… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
I'm very much about the environment, I'm very much about health, about being able to, at the very least, eat organic, whole… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
My hope is that a religious consciousness will begin to rise, one based on enhancing humanity, grasping life in all of its… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
