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• I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mean, Appeals, Gas

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• I feel we all have the obligation, myself. I want to live in a more humane, civilized society, and I feel like the only way we're going to achieve that is if we all take it upon ourselves. I just wish we could be a more caring society. I feel like we're social Darwinists who believe that everyone has to make it on their own. But the reality is that we all don't start out on the same footing.

  Natalie Merchant

  Believe, Caring, Reality

  "Natalie Merchant: Of nice and men". Interview with Donna Freydkin, www.cnn.com. May 21, 1999.

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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 dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Dream, Childhood

  Charles Dickens (2004). “The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens”, p.533, Wordsworth Editions

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• I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. My main concern is that an over-emphasis on testing and league tables has led to a lack of time and freedom for a true, imaginative and humane engagement with literature.

  Philip Pullman

  School, League, Passionate

  "About Philip Pullman". Philip Pullman's personal site, www.philip-pullman.com.

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• To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death—however “humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.

  Gary L. Francione

  Eye, Harm, Interest

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Mean, Eye, Animal

  "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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• I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Punishment, Everlasting

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.593, Psychology Press

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• You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principle enemy of moral progress in the world.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, War, Race

  Bertrand Russell, Robert Edward Egner (1961). “The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”

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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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• Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy.

  Katherine Applegate

  Selfish, Passionate, Violent

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• In the operative opinion of the world, he who is already fully provided with what is necessary for him, that man shall have more;while he who is deplorably destitute of the same, he shall have taken away from him even that which he hath. Yet the world vows it is a very plain, downright matter-of-fact, plodding, humane sort of world.

  Herman Melville

  Taken, Men, World

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.332, Herman Melville

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• My hope is that a religious consciousness will begin to rise, one based on enhancing humanity, grasping life in all of its complex wonder, having the courage to live fully, to love wastefully and to be all that each of us can be and that it will express itself in our national life in more earth centered, justice enhancing and humane ways.

  John Shelby Spong

  Love, Religious, Humane Way

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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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