Humane Quotes - Page 11

• I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

  Alice Hoffman

  Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Love

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Angela [Merkel] and I also agreed the need for a comprehensive and humane response to the devastating humanitarian crisis in Syria and for the influx of migrants and refugees from around the world. We need to build on the progress achieved at the U.N. Refugee Summit, which yielded new commitments from some 50 nations and organizations.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Organization, Progress

  Source: time.com

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• After many years of thinking, reading and writing and looking, I came to believe that there are two basic, essential values which are indispensable for humane, decent, dignified life: one is freedom, and the other is security.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Believe, Reading, Writing

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• These are human beings with real lives and the uncertainty and the fear that any of them face right now could be ended at a stroke if we had all the candidates for prime minister simply say that the right to remain here is not in question and I call again upon Theresa May and on the current prime minster to do that. That would be the humane thing to do and I even at this stage hope that that's a direction they will take.

  Nicola Sturgeon

  Real, Would Be, May

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Real, Men, Justice

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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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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• Donald Trump is not talking about a deportation force. But he`s talking about being fair and humane.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Talking, Deportation, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Workers should have a right to sit across from management to collectively bargain about their work conditions, their wages, and the future direction of the company. To me, that's just a humane thing to do. It is unacceptable in the 21st century to have companies not want to do that with their employees and create a great work environment.

  Nina Turner

  Should Have, Wages, Want

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane.

  Shimon Peres

  Giving, President, Consideration

  "Q & A with Israel President Shimon Peres". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.

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• Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Stress, Funeral, Cost

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Appreciation, Struggle

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• [The] penalty of death was abolished in the Roman empire, a law of mercy most delightful to the humane theorist, but of which the practice, in a large and vicious community, is seldom consistent with the public safety.

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, Practice, Safety

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.152

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• It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to the economics of pricing, whereas socialists built exploitative and inhumane societies on the basis of a morally inflamed approach to economics.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Irony, Economics, Decent

  Kevin D Williamson (2010). “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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• I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived.

  Albert Einstein

  People, Swiss

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• 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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• We`re a humane country. We got to make sure that we find the intelligence. We have do it [protecting our boundaries] in a humane way following the law.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Humane Way, Law

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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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• 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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• Why could not advantage be taken of a time of relative calm and quiet to investigate and try to solve a question of such immense and worldwide importance, both from the humane and Christian stand-point?

  Henry Dunant

  Christian, Taken, Trying

  "A Memory of Solferino". Book by Henry Dunant, p. 66, 1862.

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• One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Hate, Views, Meat

  "Let’s Face It: There Is No Such Thing as Humane Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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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