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This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how? -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day. -- Walter Kohn
I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats. -- Ian Somerhalder
We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world. -- Kjell Magne Bondevik
An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties. -- Jef Raskin
I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say. -- Derek Bok
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. -- Frederick Law Olmsted
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. -- Howard Zinn
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
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. -- John Perry Barlow
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 humane society. -- Pope John Paul II
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 will certainly be lost. -- William Lloyd Garrison
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 is no limit to oppression. -- H. L. Mencken
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 to the Middle Ages and to Germany. -- George Santayana
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. -- Joseph Conrad
Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane. -- Ilyas Kassam
The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear. -- Confucius
Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life. -- Paul Feyerabend
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
Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity. -- Marquis de Sade
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. -- Bella Thorne
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 best hope of the galaxy. -- Katherine Applegate
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 with Congress and getting legislation actually passed. -- Moby
Your deceit smells like a fake mustache. Nobody stole my facial hair. I shaved this morning and donated half of it to the Humane Society. The other half I kept for sentimental petting reasons. -- Jarod Kintz
Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes; And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer'd like the apparatus Of the Humane Society's beginning, By which men are unsuffocated gratis: What wondrous new machines have late been spinning. -- Lord Byron
At The Humane Society of the United States, we know how difficult it is to prevent cruelty to animals in movies because so many of the animal welfare problems occur behind the scenes in training, housing, and transportation, long before the animals get on the set. -- Wayne Pacelle
Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner. -- Roger Mahony
One can not be just if one is not humane. -- Luc de Clapiers
We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane. -- Kurt Vonnegut
At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword. -- Richard Cobden
To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target. -- Janet Yellen
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane. -- Jane Harrison
Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. -- Gary L. Francione
More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation. -- David Korten
We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior. -- Chuck Palahniuk
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. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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. -- Irving Babbitt
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. -- Dick Durbin
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. -- Joseph Glanvill
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 Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners. -- John Yoo
It is, therefore, a fact that anybody who wants to realise Truth or who wants to be humane, must follow non-violent ways of life, otherwise he will not be able to reach the Truth. -- Morarji Desai
I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at Guantanamo are being conducted in a humane and necessary manner. -- Jim Ryun
Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages. -- Julia Child
If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true. -- James D. Watson
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, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do. -- Terry Pratchett
It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity. -- Cesar Chavez
Humans are not really very humane. -- Steven Morrissey
I try firstly to make buildings humane. -- Moshe Safdie
To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal. -- Franz Kafka
Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence. -- Frei Otto
The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution! -- Bobby Seale
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane. -- Irving Babbitt
Total war is the most humane in the long run. -- C. S. Lewis
I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane. -- Alice Hoffman
You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms. -- Israel Shahak
A society is only as healthy as its ideas are humane. -- Kurt Vonnegut
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane. -- Seneca the Younger
Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue. -- Edmund Burke
A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches. -- Joanne Greenberg
It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. -- Robert Burns
Bernie Sanders is all about being humane and loving to each other. -- Tommy Chong
The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise. -- Homer
I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane. -- Shimon Peres
We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals. -- Gary L. Francione
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world. -- Andre Maurois
An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world . -- Ashley Montagu
Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane -- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method. -- Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals. -- Marie Stopes
We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border. -- David Dewhurst
Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy. -- Michael Greger
The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference. -- Toni Morrison
A well-designed and humane interface does not need to be split into beginner and expert subsystems. -- Jef Raskin
Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge. -- Vaclav Havel
In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them. -- Steven Pinker
I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore. -- Kurt Vonnegut
In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat. -- Ingrid Newkirk
Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. -- Juhani Pallasmaa
Donald Trump is not talking about a deportation force. But he`s talking about being fair and humane. -- Kellyanne Conway
My message is very simple and universal, not very intellectual, but humane. Just love each other and live. -- Alton Ellis
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. -- Bertrand Russell
Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible. -- Max de Pree
A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real. -- Lindsay Duncan
Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion... -- Shannon Hale
We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live. -- Matthew Specktor
My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals. -- Robert Winston
The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader. -- Phil Ochs
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience. -- John Charles Polanyi
There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'. -- Galileo Galilei
The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again. -- John Maeda
The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. -- John Eric Erichsen
Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision. -- Julia Alvarez
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants. -- Peter Kreeft
I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions. --
The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. -- Erich Maria Remarque
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. -- Maxim Gorky
It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book. -- Daniel Alarcon
There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish. -- Peter Singer
I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived. -- Albert Einstein
Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. -- Gary L. Francione
Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every [person] of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits [his or her] convictions, but we must all protest. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature. -- Herbert Marcuse
Man should strive to be a gentleman in a barbaric world, merciful in a merciless time and humane in an inhumane culture. -- Seth D.
We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war. -- Kofi Annan
I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us. -- Laura Mullen
Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear. -- John Milton
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
Animal experiments are no joke. Thank goodness scientists are finding better, more humane ways to develop treatments for cancer and other killer diseases. -- Carol Leifer
When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people. -- Pat Boone
The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice. -- Alan Lomax
Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism. -- Pope Francis
Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again. -- Thomas More

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