Humane Quotes

263 Humane quotes by 218 unique authors

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore. — Kurt Vonnegut
You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the… — C.S. Lewis
The Humane Society of America thinks Michael Vick should have a dog. I think whoever's in charge there should have a lobotomy. — Andrew Vachss
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and… — John Adams
Top Trumps appeared to be a game in which you got cards, and the cards had a picture (in this case, of a horse), and… — Maureen Johnson
The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again. — John Maeda
There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. — Bertrand Russell
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step… — Bertrand Russell
Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the… — Katherine Applegate
Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion... — Shannon Hale
To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no… — Gary L. Francione
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in… — Philip Pullman
I was glad when the Invalids were executed. Some people complained that lethal injection was too humane for convicted terrorists, but I thought it sent… — Lauren Oliver
I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants… — Temple Grandin
Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition. — Alvin Toffler
It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so… — Bernard Berenson
There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots.… — J. William Fulbright
We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world… — Adolfo Perez Esquivel
There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This is… — Paul Wellstone
When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and… — Ruth Manorama
I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any… — Frederick Douglass
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world. — Andre Maurois
Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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