“ We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world. ”
- Kjell Magne Bondevik- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 162
“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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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. ”
- John Perry Barlow- Copy
- 38
“ 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- Copy
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“ To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly, it is to be humane. ”
- Jane Harrison- Copy
- 95
“ 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- Copy
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“ The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one. ”
- Wilhelm Stekel- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. ”
- Zoroaster- Copy
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“ And in the long run, disease is more humane than war or starvation. My, isn't that gloomy? ”
- David and Leigh Eddings- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 625
“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 650
“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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