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• Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion.

  Shannon Hale

  Beats, Said, Indigestion

  Shannon Hale (2012). “Midnight in Austenland: A Novel”, p.185, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.

  Seneca the Younger

  Latin, Long, Humans

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• Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.

  Adam Michnik

  Love, Life, Wisdom

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• It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe toward the Indian tribes within our limits a just and liberal policy, and to give that humane and considerate attention to their rights and their wants which is consistent with the habits of our Government and the feelings of our people.

  Andrew Jackson

  Rights, Government, People

  John Stilwell Jenkins, Andrew Jackson (2011). “Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.221, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.

  Alice Miller

  Love, Respect, Children

  Alice Miller (1998). “Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child”, p.115, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Nbc, Our World, Organization

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

  Jef Raskin

  Simplicity, Design, Experts

  "The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems".

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• The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.

  J. B. Jackson

  Cycling, Greek, Violence

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• The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

  Aldous Huxley

  Anarchy, Utopia, Wave

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Animal, Men, Forget

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• 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

  Heart, Winning, Firsts

  John Milton (1752). “Paradise Regain'D. A Poem, In Four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes, And Poems upon Several Occasions: 3”, p.154

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• Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.

  Stanley Milgram

  Men, Flow, Degrees

  "Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View". Book by Stanley Milgram, p. 188, 1974.

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• 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

  Justice, Freedom Of Speech, Liberty

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• If anyone feels offended by my words, I would respond that I speak them with affection and with the best of intentions, quite apart from any personal interest or political ideology. My words are not those of a foe or an opponent. I am interested only in helping those who are in thrall to an individualistic, indifferent and self-centred mentality to be freed from those unworthy chains and to attain a way of living and thinking which is more humane, noble and fruitful, and which will bring dignity to their presence on this earth.

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, Self, Political

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.61, BookBaby

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• To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.

  Janet Yellen

  Wise, Running, Target

  "Dear Janet Yellen, Raise The Inflation Target" by Matt Busigin, www.businessinsider.com. February 3, 201.

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• I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old by giving the new slaves the illusion that they are free. The Economy does not take people's freedom by force, which would be against its principles, for it is very humane. It buys their freedom, pays for it, and then persuades its money back again with shoddy goods and the promise of freedom. "Buy a car," it says, "and be free. Buy a boat and be free." Is this not the raw material of bad dreams? Or is it maybe the very nightmare itself?

  Wendell Berry

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

  Julia Child

  Thinking, Humane Way, Meat

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Punishment, Favors, Shields

  Theodore Roosevelt (2009). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.131, Courier Corporation

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• Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. But as it was predetermined and inevitable, it was long enough delayed. Now is the appropriate time to solve the greatest problem ever submitted to civilized man.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Heart, Patriotic, Men

  Thaddeus Stevens (1997). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens: January 1814-March 1865”, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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• If you're looking at the Bible for a guide to living a compassionate, wise and humane life, well, frankly you've got more chance of finding a lap dancing club in Mekka or a virgin in a catholic orphanage.

  Pat Condell

  Wise, Dancing, Catholic

  YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"What Have I Got Against Religion?", www.youtube.com. March 04, 2007.

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• 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.

  Robert Barr

  Book, Men, Issues

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• It seems to me that liberal and humane people, of whom there are many among us, would, if they were asked to rank the vices, put cruelty first. Intuitively they would choose cruelty as the worst thing we do.

  Judith N. Shklar

  People, Vices, Firsts

  Judith N. Shklar (1984). “Ordinary Vices”, p.44, Harvard University Press

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• When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is rally hideous, and 'compassionate' and 'certified humane' or whatever, which 'may' be 'slightly' less hideous. But it is all torture. It's all wrong. These 'happy' gimmicks are just designed to make the public feel better about exploiting animals. Don't buy the propaganda of 'happy' exploitation. Go vegan and promote veganism.

  Gary L. Francione

  Feel Better, Animal, Agriculture

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• Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.

  Max De Pree

  Humane Way, People, Liberating

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• 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.

  Harold Bloom

  Wise, Book, Reading

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