Humane Quotes - Page 11

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

  Phil Ochs

  Leader, Revolution, United States

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• 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

  Cancer, Animal, Humane Way

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• It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.

  Robert Burns

  Humanity, Rebel, Cruelty

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• It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play their part, and an important part, in a full discussion of food reform; but the feeling which underlies and animates the whole movement is the instinctive horror of butchery, especially the butchery of the more highly organized animals, so human, so near akin to man.

  Henry Stephens Salt

  Men, Animal, Vegetarianism

  "The Humanities of Diet". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1897.

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• The "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits," this good fellow carried hidden in his nature, apparently, something destined to develop into a necessity for humane letters.

  Matthew Arnold

  Science, Letters, Tails

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.686, Delphi Classics

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• Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ... "Surely a better time must be drawing nigh when godlike human beings will become truly humane, and learn to put their animal fellow mortals in their hearts instead of on their backs or in their dinners.

  John Muir

  Heart, Animal, Drawing

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• Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism, Life After Faith is utterly devoid of cartoons and caricatures of religion. It is, instead, a sober and soulful book, an exemplary practice of philosophical reflection. Scrupulous in its argument, elegant in its style, humane in its spirit, it is animated by a stirring aspiration to wisdom. Even as I quarrel with it I admire it.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Book, Philosophical, Reflection

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• English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me.

  Matthew Arnold

  Civilization, Body, Interest

  Matthew Arnold, Gillian Sutherland (1973). “Matthew Arnold on education”, Penguin Books

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• Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational.

  John Dewey

  Educational, Past, Quality

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.173, 谷月社

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• To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.

  Franz Kafka

  Animal

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Aphorisms of Franz Kafka, published in "Parables and Paradoxes" (1946), 9; parody of a statement of Victor Hugo, 1917 - 1918.

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• Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.

  Max Stirner

  Religious, Real, Men

  Max Stirner (2012). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.288, Courier Corporation

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• The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power.

  Jerry Brown

  Thinking, Punishment, People

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• The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Purpose, Defeat, Existence

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.149, Routledge

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• 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.

  Thomas Merton

  Names, People, Evil

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• I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

  David Walker

  Ignorant, Half, Earth

  David Walker (2008). “Walker's Appeal”, p.28, Applewood Books

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• Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Feelings, Culture

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.

  Ricardo Semler

  Wisdom, Politics, Way

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• During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if there was a chance that it could save them, or others, from the eternal torments of hell. Thus, in the name of the religion of love, hundreds of thousands of people were not merely killed but atrociously tortured in ways that made the gas chambers of Beslen seem humane.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Names, People, Atheism

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• 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

  Essentials, Unions, Impossible

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gun, Boys, Hunting

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.137, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Marie Stopes

  Civilization, Birth Control, Modern

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• Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Grief, Character, Joy

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

  Aphra Behn

  Wise, Men, Thinking

  Aphra Behn (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)”, p.273, Delphi Classics

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• You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms.

  Israel Shahak

  Contradiction, Term, Zionism

  "An Interview with Israel Shahak", Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. IV, No. 3, p. 3, 1975.

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• You are never going to have, in a country as rich as ours [the USA], that borders a country as poor as Mexico, an end to immigration. You just won't. The question is, if you make it humane and if you make it regulated. It's much better for an American worker to compete against a regulated immigrant inside labor standards, than it is to ever to compete against an illegal immigrant.

  Ezra Klein

  Country, Usa, Immigration

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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