Top 1200 Humane Way Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.

There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.

I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us.

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.

There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.

Few people are as well-situated to speak about the laudable benefits of a humane immigration policy than me.

I want prisons to be spartan, but humane, a place people don't have a particular desire to come back to.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.

Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And this is, in principle, how Hitler treated the Jews. They were objects; killed not for ill desert but because, on his theories, they were a disease in society. If society can mend, remake, and unmake men at its pleasure, its pleasure may, of course, be humane or homicidal. The difference is important. But, either way, rulers have become owners.

I feel we all have the obligation, myself. I want to live in a more humane, civilized society, and I feel like the only way we're going to achieve that is if we all take it upon ourselves. I just wish we could be a more caring society. I feel like we're social Darwinists who believe that everyone has to make it on their own. But the reality is that we all don't start out on the same footing.

There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good.'...one might point to the way in which racial hatreds and even persecution are admitted by people who consider themselves, and perhaps in some sense are, kind, tolerant, civilized and even humane.

In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.

In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life.

Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision.

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

We are a humane society, and one which believes that we have to help rehabilitate offenders so they turn away from crime.

Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

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 hung. Others, less irritable, think that gently chloroforming them would seem more humane. A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them.

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 in.

I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived.

The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me.

I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.

Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

Individually, we've taken the world on and won; together, we must take on the challenge of creating a new, peaceful, humane and competitive nation and prevail.

To have control of my own mind... to go with dignity is less terryfying. When I look at both options I have to die, I feel this is far more humane.

I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.

In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.

Bernie Sanders is all about being humane and loving to each other.

I have dedicated my career to advocating for a more equitable, humane criminal justice system.

Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy.

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 house.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book.

Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in English. Mead has discovered an original and highly personal way to make herself an inhabitant both of the book and of George Eliot's imaginary city. Though I have read and taught the book these many years I find myself desiring to go back to it after reading Rebecca Mead's work.

The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader.

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

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 democratic society.

It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

A well-designed and humane interface does not have to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.

Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.

As home secretary, I will work to ensure that our immigration policy is fair and humane.

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 preserved and peace and security are safeguarded.