Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economies abroad after World War II, even those… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
It matters not whether these weapons of ours are humane: if they gain us our freedom, they are justified before our conscience… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we "stand for" in life- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
The world is in need of an encompassing and of course, just and humane order in the light of which the rights… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
I don't have a hands-on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“They said my solution was foreign because I lived on another planet. It required honesty. It required communication. It required kindness. It… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Workers should have a right to sit across from management to collectively bargain about their work conditions, their wages, and the future… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits:… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
“In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he… — Henry Noel Brailsford Copy Share Image
You are never going to have, in a country as rich as ours [the USA], that borders a country as poor as… — Ezra Klein Copy Share Image
We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically:… — Adolfo Perez Esquivel Copy Share Image
Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“A scientist is not to teach humans, but to serve humans A philosopher is not to teach humans, but to serve humans.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play… — Henry Stephens Salt Copy Share Image
The lawyers' contribution to the civilizing of humanity is evidenced in the capacity of lawyers to argue furiously in the courtroom, then… — John Silber Copy Share Image
They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Beyond the economics of production efficiency, animal welfare laws that require "humane" treatment are really not about animals; they're about humans and… — Gary Francione Copy Share Image
The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world. — Kjell Magne Bondevik Copy Share Image
I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real. — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals. — Marie Stopes Copy Share Image
There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. -Juhani Pallasmaa” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image