Humane Quotes

263 Humane quotes by 218 unique authors

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
A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically… — Henry Louis Gates
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away… — Joseph Conrad
If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants… — Morarji Desai
Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life. — Daisaku Ikeda
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent. — Barbara Kingsolver
The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there… — H. L. Mencken
There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working… — Unknown Author
Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable… — Ingrid Newkirk
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 number of animals… — Ingrid Newkirk
There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on… — Ingrid Newkirk
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. — Frederick Law Olmsted
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and… — Pope John Paul II
In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them. — Steven Pinker

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