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I try firstly to make buildings humane. — Moshe Safdie

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

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals. — Marie Stopes

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

A society is only as healthy as its ideas are humane. — Kurt Vonnegut

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties. — Jef Raskin

We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals. — Gary L. Francione

Be proud of being humane, not human! — Vinita Kinra

In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

In Iraq, order, even of totalitarian dimensions, turned out to be more humane than the lack of order that followed. — Robert D. Kaplan

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say. — Derek Bok

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

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

To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal. — Franz Kafka

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. — Howard Zinn

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in. — Robert Greenwald

There is no humane way to rule people against their will. — Naomi Klein

I hope people don't take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them. — Shirley Rousseau Murphy

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

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'. — Galileo Galilei

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

I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering. — Zoe Weil

A culture with cats is richer and more humane than one deprived of their unique companionship. — George R R Martin

The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane. — Irving Babbitt

I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats. — Ian Somerhalder

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it ... to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition. — Alvin Toffler

Evolution is not humane, but we could be. — William Olkowski

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

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear. — Confucius

Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy. — Michael Greger

To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target. — Janet Yellen

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword. — Richard Cobden

Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane. — Joseph Wood Krutch

Most *educated* people would rather be called *professional* than be said to be *humane.* — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Three things are needed
For humanity to co-exist:
Truth, peace and basic needs.
Everything else -
Is irrelevant. — Suzy Kassem

Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again. — Thomas More

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again. — John Maeda

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature. — Herbert Marcuse

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

The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so. — Mahnaz Afkhami

Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. — Gary L. Francione

Socialism is based on the notion that collaboration and sharing are more productive, humane, and moral than competition and privatization. — Eric Michael Moberg

always think what we're doing is humane, — Hamish Hamilton

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

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. — Erich Maria Remarque

How strange! A dog is more humane than a human is. — Debasish Mridha

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

More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation. — David Korten

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

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

Every [person] of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits [his or her] convictions, but we must all protest. — Martin Luther King Jr.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world. — Kjell Magne Bondevik

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane. — Jane Harrison

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane. — Mahatma Gandhi

My message is very simple and universal, not very intellectual, but humane. Just love each other and live. — Alton Ellis

To have control of my own mind ... to go with dignity is less terryfying. When I look at both options I have to die, I feel this is far more humane. — Brittany Maynard

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

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane. — Ilyas Kassam

Humanity could be more humane if we can tie everyone with the thread of love. — Debasish Mridha

No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature, which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. — Henry David Thoreau

Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations. — Zoe Weil

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore. — Kurt Vonnegut

I didn't say anything at all, because somehow saying nothing seemed more humane than giving him all these reassurances. — Jennifer Brown

Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact, more humane? — Greg Fitzsimmons

If you can't save the forest, plant a tree. - Mr. Morrison, Humane Society volunteer — Peg Kehret

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war. — Kofi Annan

We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology. — Sam Kean

The Ten Commandments are the lowest possible standard of humane living. — Erwin Raphael McManus

Humane people don't start revolutions, they start libraries. And cemeteries. — Jean-Luc Godard

There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all
animals with only survival instincts. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them. — Sun Tzu

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

Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible. — Max De Pree

Humans are not really very humane. — Steven Morrissey

This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how? — Friedrich Durrenmatt

The heavens are not humane, nor is any man with a head on his shoulders. Here — Bohumil Hrabal

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

One can not be just if one is not humane. — Luc De Clapiers

Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'! — W.O. Wainwright

I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions. — Sharon Creech

I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. — Bertrand Russell

what I hope for Chizalum is this: that she will be full of opinions, and that her opinions will come from an informed, humane and broad-minded place. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. — Robert Burns

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. — Frederick Law Olmsted

I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammer
to solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane. — Toba Beta

For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen. — Xavier Dolan

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

I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home. — Archibald Cox

The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. — John Eric Erichsen

Nature make us more kind, more humane, more beautiful, and more natural. — Debasish Mridha

Live your epitaph — Zoe Weil