84 Quotes About Humane

Poverty of others is an opportunity to be humane

They said my solution was foreign because I lived on another planet. It required honesty. It required communication. It required kindness. It required integrity. It required compassion. It required empathy. It required a deep understanding of what it meant to be humane. It required courage to be something above the others. It required proving your love of God.

When a calamity happens even bad people turn humane, whereas worse people turn opportunistic.

Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. -Juhani Pallasmaa

Nonconsensual execution can never be humanely executed.

These foxes will die of starvation; better to put them out of their misery. These foxes will harm schoolchildren; better to put them out of their misery. These humans will destroy the earth; better to put them out of their misery.

The nicest way to avoid getting hurt is to not let people know that you are humane.

When so-called laws outlaw humanity, we need to question whether we are or have ever been truly humane people.

Though bonobos tend to be a lot hairier than us—and they don’t build houses or churches or Pentagons like we do—these primates look and act remarkably human. They often even go beyond the merely “human,” and enter the realm of the truly “humane.