Quotes of Humane - somelinesforyou

“ Vegetarians eat vegetables. What do humanitarians eat? ”

- Bob Phillips

“ We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world. ”

- Kjell Magne Bondevik

“ I ruefully realized I should have listened to my own common sense rather than the advice of others who have the less-than-altruistic motive of making money. ”

- Joan Collins

“ We must dig deep in our pockets to make sure Pakistan isn't destabilized by the humanitarian crisis that may be about to engulf the country. ”

- Chris Patten

“ He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead. ”

- Voltaire

“ Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic. ”

- Hu Shih

“ God is a just as He is merciful. ”

- Thomas Brooks

“ Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. ”

- Pope John Paul II

“ There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights. ”

- Dick Durbin

“ 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. ”

- John Perry Barlow

“ We need a value system that will allow us to fulfill our essential human and humane tasks to be producers, to be providers and to be protectors. ”

- Jesse Jackson

“ To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly, it is to be humane. ”

- Jane Harrison

“ There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are — more humane. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one. ”

- Wilhelm Stekel

“ Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur. ”

- Raymond Chandler

“ Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh? ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity. ”

- Marquis de Sade

“ Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. ”

- Zoroaster

“ And in the long run, disease is more humane than war or starvation. My, isn't that gloomy? ”

- David and Leigh Eddings

“ With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. ”

- William Lloyd Garrison

“ 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. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement — but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ 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

“ The best generals I have known were… stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes — love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt… ”

- Leo Tolstoy
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