Humane Quotes

As against the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.

Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.

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

Bernie Sanders is all about being humane and loving to each other.

The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.

...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.

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.

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.

Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed.

Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision.

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

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.

The missing link between animals and a truly humane mankind is man himself, who does not yet see himself as a part of the world, claiming it instead for himself.

Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

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

The Humane Society of America thinks Michael Vick should have a dog. I think whoever's in charge there should have a lobotomy.

It was no human life that was involved in the matter, for that only is a human life which is a humane life.

In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.

The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help.

Animal experiments are no joke. Thank goodness scientists are finding better, more humane ways to develop treatments for cancer and other killer diseases.

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.

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

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

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.

Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book.

We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border.

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.

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.

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

The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power.

A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.

I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us.

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me.

We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.

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.

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.

Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life.

There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.

The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader.

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.

My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.

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