Humane Quotes · Page 13

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

— Vaclav Havel

Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world,…

— Judy Chicago

Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not…

— Matthew Specktor

William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you don’t see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The…

— Victor LaValle

The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically…

— Adolf Hitler

I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways…

— Henry David Thoreau

Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country,…

— Patrick Henry

The Humane Society of the United States works with local Humane Societies across the country. We don't control every local Humane Society…

— Wayne Pacelle

“Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it…

— Anthon St. Maarten

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.

— John Eric Erichsen

A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.

— Lindsay Duncan

Donald Trump wants to look at this situation [with immigrants] and deal with it in a humane way, and quite frankly, you…

— Chris Christie

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no…

— Anonymous

Angela [Merkel] and I also agreed the need for a comprehensive and humane response to the devastating humanitarian crisis in Syria and…

— Barack Obama

“I hope people don't take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them.”

— Shirley Rousseau Murphy

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is…

— George Santayana

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.

— Franz Kafka

Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that…

— Meghan O'Rourke

To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.

— Menander

The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and…

— Aldous Huxley

“No society is born humane, it must be made humane.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

— Julia Child