Top 418 Humane Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Larry King's show got to be an increasingly lonely outpost of humane civility in a mephitic menagerie of hotheads, saber rattlers, cretins and crackpots.
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.
The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.
Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion.
I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.
Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision.
Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.
More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.
An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.
I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.
I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.
Animal experiments are no joke. Thank goodness scientists are finding better, more humane ways to develop treatments for cancer and other killer diseases.
Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.
...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.
Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us.
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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 like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived.
There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.
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.
Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.
Our nation has invested millions of dollars in building safe, humane and, I may say, air-conditioned facilities to detain and prosecute the detainees at Guantanamo.
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.
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.
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 where I am.
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.
Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book.
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.
Robin Williams was a cultural hero of mine, and in the encounters and interactions I was able to share with him, he was always gentle and generous, humane and thoughtful and hilarious.
I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.
I should have the opportunity, if I need to let somebody go, to let the person go in a very humane, dignified way.
Denying that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel does nothing to promote peace - instead, it disrespects a longtime, helpful and humane ally in the Middle East.
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 today's factory farms.
Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.
Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
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.
We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.
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.
The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.
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 are - more 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.
We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.
In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions.
Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.
Few people are as well-situated to speak about the laudable benefits of a humane immigration policy than me.
Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.
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.
Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.
