Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more… — Mark Strand 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
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
We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life. — Paul Feyerabend 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
In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind… — Niccolo Machiavelli 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
“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
On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War,… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image