Humane Quotes - Page 6

• An essential criterion for any humane immigration policy is that it should allow families to remain together. Whether that means letting the entire family migrate together, or allowing a caregiver to travel back and forth across the border, it should make it easier for workers to be with their families instead of harder.

  Jody Heymann

  Mean, Together, Immigration

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honourable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. And far from being a mark of indifference or intolerance, wrongness is a vital part of how we learn and change. Thanks to error, we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Mean, Errors, Ideas

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• 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.

  Pliny the Elder

  Beautiful, Thinking, World

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• Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Religious, Opposites, Faithful

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.73, FastPencil Inc

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• Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Education, Spiritual

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• The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Community, Forever

  J. G. Ballard (2010). “Super-Cannes: A Novel”, p.269, Macmillan

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• Humans are not really very humane.

  Steven Morrissey

  Humans

  "Song: 'Earth Is The Loneliest Planet'". 2014.

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• They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your heart with little thought of return. Both powerfully imaginary and comfortingly real, dogs act as mirrors for our own beliefs about what would constitute a truly humane society. Perhaps it is not too late for them to teach us some new tricks.

  Marjorie Garber

  Wise, Dog, Real

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• I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Brain, Culture, Harmony

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Men, House

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.29, HarperCollins UK

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• When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, War, Limits

  "The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations" edited by Antony Jay, 1996.

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• He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them.

  Sun Tzu

  Wise, Secret, Use

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• Niko's angular face caught a flicker of firelight and Tempus saw his future there: sharp purpose, discipline, and power in perfect balance; love of man and gods, and mercy transcending all. If war ever wore a more humane face, this one would make it so.

  Janet Morris

  Determination, War, Responsibility

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• 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

  Thinking, Animal, Humane Way

  Interview with Polly Frost, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2009.

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• I'm very much about the environment, I'm very much about health, about being able to, at the very least, eat organic, whole foods that are healthy for us. And then, of course, everyone being able to eat and at least have a humane way to live. There's enough for everybody, but unfortunately, there's a lot of greed and a lot of ego.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Humane Way, Greed, Ego

  "Lenny Kravitz: Living and Loving Every Moment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Teacher, School, Caring

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.30, New Society Publishers

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• The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically executed represents the most humane act of mankind.

  Adolf Hitler

  Eugenics, People, Demand

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Volumptuous women look good. Ignorant messages from mass media tell women what size to be, but female qualities-a softness, a soothing capacity that a woman has no matter what size she happens to be-sustain the more humane aspects of civilization.

  Stanley Crouch

  Beauty, Media, Civilization

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• 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

  Safety, Arbitrary, Protection

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.

  Matthew Specktor

  Sacrifice, Decision, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The money our society spends goes to appease those with power. As such, it goes mainly to those who don't need it. A nation that redistributes income to its poor buys a civilized and humane society, and it buys this with a miniscule share of the national income and a modest reduction in the supply of cleaning women. A country that subsidizes workers in the prime working years sacrifices, not a dust-free living room, but the very muscle of the national economy.

  Mancur Olson

  Country, Sacrifice, Dust

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• 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

  Nice, Animal, Supportive

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

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• Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Suits, Conviction, Protest

  "The trumpet of conscience".

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• Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspirational, Revolution, Spheres

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• The great financial capital is not in one country, it is transnational, that is why it answers to power elites and that is why when I talk about the imperial power of United States I am in no way referring to the American people, who are a noble people that have always been moved by humane concerns.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Country, People, United States

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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