Humane Quotes

263 quotes by 218 authors

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world. — Kjell Magne Bondevik
I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions. — Sharon Creech
Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful. — Bill Ayers
We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border. — David Dewhurst
For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of… — Robert Hooke
Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is… — Robert Greenwald
Our generation may stand at a crucial breakpoint in history, for we in the presently affluent nations may be the last who can afford to… — Philip K. Chapman
Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when… — Stanley Milgram
The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice. — Alan Lomax
If anyone feels offended by my words, I would respond that I speak them with affection and with the best of intentions, quite apart from… — Pope Francis
To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target. — Janet Yellen
It was no human life that was involved in the matter, for that only is a human life which is a humane life. — Anna Kingsford
Fascism is the most inherently evil political ideology that man has ever devised. Wherever we see even the smallest sapling of fascism growing, we should… — Derek R. Audette
I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old… — Wendell Berry
It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. — Robert Burns
It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play their part, and… — Henry Stephens Salt
The "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits," this good fellow carried hidden in his nature, apparently, something… — Matthew Arnold
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ... "Surely… — John Muir
Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism, Life After Faith… — Leon Wieseltier
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they… — William Lloyd Garrison

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