Humane Quotes

263 Humane quotes by 218 unique authors

The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. — John Eric Erichsen
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals… — Jimmy Hoffa
The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man… — John Dewey
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in… — Aldous Huxley
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of… — Ramsey Clark
That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for… — Robert Musil
The world is in need of an encompassing and of course, just and humane order in the light of which the rights of all are… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Though it's a film about cross-border love, there isn't a word of politics in it. Forget politics, there isn't slap, not even a raised voice… — Yash Chopra
We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war. — Kofi Annan
Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of… — George Washington
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the… — Leo Tolstoy
But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for… — Albert Einstein
William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you don’t see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The Hundred Hearts is… — Victor LaValle
Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough… — Judy Chicago
In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected the world to… — Adolf Hitler
Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true,… — Thomas Jefferson
The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of… — Alexander Hamilton
You may ask what kind of a republic I dream of. Let me reply: I dream of a republic independent, free, and democratic, of a… — Vaclav Havel
The Humane Society of the United States works with local Humane Societies across the country. We don't control every local Humane Society in this nation.… — Wayne Pacelle
It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh… — Tom Regan
The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life… — Albert Schweitzer
Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write… — Virginia Woolf

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