Humane Quotes

• 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

  Success, Men, Tyrants

  William Lloyd Garrison, Walter McIntosh Merrill, Louis Ruchames (1971). “The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: I will be heard, 1822-1835”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Greatness, Humanity

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• 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

  Technology, Government, Civilization

  "On Cat Videos and Human Rights" by Christina Gagnier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2010.

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

  Maxim Gorky

  Kindness, Love You, Done

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• A society is only as healthy as its ideas are humane.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Ideas, Healthy

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• The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, Soulmate, Honesty

  The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 2

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• I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.

  Arthur Ashe

  Helping Others, Joy, Forgiving

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• We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Health, Compassion, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Jan 05, 2015

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

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Treatment, Torture

  Gary L. Francione (2009). “Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation”, p.69, Columbia University Press

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• If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.

  Morarji Desai

  Pain, Men, Eugenics

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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• We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Vision, World, Relinquishing

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• We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  Immanuel Kant

  Dog, Heart, Animal

  "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• One can not be just if one is not humane.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Can Not, Ifs

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Réflexions, XXVIII, p. 413-15, 1922.

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• To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of autonomy. The failure to see the non-human domain in the richer terms appropriate to ethics licences supposedly ‘purely instrumental’ relationships that distort our perceptions and enframings, impoverish our relations and make us insensitive to dependencies and interconnections

  Val Plumwood

  Relationship, Sympathy, Nature

  Val Plumwood (2005). “Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason”, p.9, Routledge

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• A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.

  Ramsey Clark

  Heart, Savages, Death Penalty

  Ramsey Clark (1971). “Crime in America”

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• What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Shame, Regard, Spares

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• I believe that every human being should try to do good for someone else. There are so many different ways to do it. My art can be an instrument for helping people... What a good feeling - that I can do that with my art.

  Romero Britto

  Inspirational, Art, Believe

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• If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

  Francis of Assisi

  Religious, Peace, Men

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• Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

  Howard Zinn

  Taught, Action, Civilized

  "Quotations on Terrorism". Book by Harry Kawilarang (p. 61), 2004.

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• My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.

  Walter Kohn

  Love, Peace, Commitment

  Walter Kohn, Matthias Scheffler, Peter Weinberger (2003). “Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators”, p.295, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Cat, Three, Rescue

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Romantic Love, Leader, Conventions

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• 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

  Rights, Hair, Law

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• Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

  Raymond Chandler

  Integrity, Men, Hollywood

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.120, Univ of California Press

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• It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

  Lionel Trilling

  Spiritual, Contemplation, Badness

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