Steven Morrissey
Singer-Songwriter
"Humans are not really very humane."
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Humane
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Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"A society is only as healthy as its ideas are humane."
Toni Morrison
Novelist, Essayist
"The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference."
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"As long as we are among humans, let us be humane."
Franz Kafka
Writer
"To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal."
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"What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame."
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"I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived."
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