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Humane Quotes

We’ve collected the best Humane Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Jaime Harrison, George Edward Woodberry, Julia Child, David Korten, Henry Louis Gates. Use them as an inspiration.

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Our goal should be to protect our borders and our national security, while instituting humane policies that reflect our values as a nation of immigrants.
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To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.
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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.
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More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.
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A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that’s basically where I am.
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If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.
Morarji Desai
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Captain William Thomas Turner, hero; villain, Schwieger. As I started doing research into him and into the submarine and so forth, I found that I was growing increasingly sympathetic to him. He’s a young guy, 30, handsome, well-liked by his crew, humane.
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
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Extreme poverty threatens people‘s right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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It is, therefore, a fact that anybody who wants to realise Truth or who wants to be humane, must follow non-violent ways of life, otherwise he will not be able to reach the Truth.
Morarji Desai
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I should have the opportunity, if I need to let somebody go, to let the person go in a very humane, dignified way.
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There are justifiable case-by-case situations wherein an educator might exhibit targeted sensitivity to a student‘s unique circumstances. This is humane and laudable. In most instances though, trigger warnings are not a manifestation of justified empathy but are symptomatic of an ailing culture.
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Terms like that, ‘Humane Society,’ are devised with people like me in mind, who don’t care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it’s always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
Pat Boone
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We have new ways to be born, humane and symbolic ways to die, different ways to be richnew ways to be human and to discover what we are to each other.
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The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions.
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We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I’m more humane than that.
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There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed.
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Robin Williams was a cultural hero of mine, and in the encounters and interactions I was able to share with him, he was always gentle and generous, humane and thoughtful and hilarious.
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Each successive period of progress is a period more humane and spiritual. The only logical conclusion is that all is Mind and its manifestation, from the rolling of worlds, in the most subtle ether, to a potato-patch.
Mary Baker Eddy
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America has an obligation to secure its borders, but it is wrong to pass laws that treat human beings as something less than human. If my father were alive, he would be in the forefront of the struggle for a fair and humane reform of our immigration laws.
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I’ve always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
Maggie Lawson
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I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.
Sharon Creech
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There’s nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today’s factory farms.
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Denying that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel does nothing to promote peace – instead, it disrespects a longtime, helpful and humane ally in the Middle East.
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That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.
Joseph Glanvill
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Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economies abroad after World War II, even those of our enemies, Germany and Japan.
Anthony Lewis
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Because animals are property, we consider as ‘humane treatment‘ that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
Gary L. Francione
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On this National Immigration Day of Action, it is worth remembering that it’s not just Americans in New York or Los Angeles who believe that we need a more humane and rational system.
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At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.
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It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people’s experience.
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I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.
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Secular intellectuals may wax eloquent about ‘true Islam‘ being humane and peaceful, on TV programmes, but it is clear that they have not read any authoritative translations of the Koran, the Sira, and the Hadith.
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I have dedicated my career to advocating for a more equitable, humane criminal justice system.
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To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.
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Instead of exporting what they perceived to be rational, modern, humane government to their colonies, the British often found themselves propping up deeply unattractive and corrupt princelings and client rulers because this was the cheapest way of maintaining control.
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I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.

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