Humane Quotes

263 Humane quotes by 218 unique authors

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity,… — Terry Pratchett
An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties. — Jef Raskin
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper… — George Santayana
There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish. — Peter Singer
I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats. — Ian Somerhalder
My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals. — Robert Winston
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in… — George Edward Woodberry
It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al… — John Yoo
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. — Howard Zinn
Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must… — Howard Zinn
The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us… — Oscar Wilde
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set… — Virginia Woolf
We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane. — Kurt Vonnegut
Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be… — Bess Streeter Aldrich
How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a… — Kurt Vonnegut
...choose to deal with inhumane situations in a humane way, we can turn the world around and create positive lessons for ourselves and for others. — Zlata FilipoviÄ‡
Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once,… — Charles Dickens
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. — Erich Maria Remarque
They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We… — J. G. Ballard
Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge;… — Dalai Lama
Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane. — Mahatma Gandhi

Who Wrote These Humane Quotes

218 authors contributed a total of 263 Humane Quotes, led by these top contributors: