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  • It isn't reasonable or humane.†   (source)
  • It's the humane thing to do.†   (source)
  • "Because," shouted the cop, "it's going to be very intelligent, and quite interesting and humane!†   (source)
  • A true Nazi observing such an action, such humane treatment of a Jew, would have murdered them both without a moment's hesitation.†   (source)
  • When you get to your new homes, anyone who wants to work will be treated humanely.†   (source)
  • Annex: "Do you think the Germans are too noble or humane to do it?†   (source)
  • We should treat people in a humane way.†   (source)
  • Even before the Morning dale scandal, even back when Hailsham was considered a shining beacon, an example of how we might move to a more humane and better way of doing things, even then, it wasn't true.†   (source)
  • Usually it's an older woman of kindly temperament and humane politics.†   (source)
  • If you can manage to put up with me a little more humanely, I'll go on doing what I can for Mister Rufus.†   (source)
  • If it were up to her, they would be humanely dispatched to that great canine insane asylum in the sky.†   (source)
  • It will be more humane for the draccus and safer for us.†   (source)
  • They had said no; perhaps others would be more humane.†   (source)
  • But Carlisle has always been the most humane, the most compassionate of us...I don't think you could find his equal throughout all of history.†   (source)
  • They say their methods are humane.†   (source)
  • Most of my immediate editors were white women, whom I found in general to be the most compassionate, humane, and often brightest in the newsroom, yet they rarely rose to the top-even when compared to their more conservative black male counterparts, some of whom marched around the newsrooms as if they were the second coming of Martin Luther King, wielding their race like baseball bats.†   (source)
  • Even when the humanity isn't very humane, or the heart ailment a disease.†   (source)
  • What's more humane, after all?†   (source)
  • Pickwick said that the German doctor in charge of the prison hospital was a humane man who occasionally arranged a medical discharge.†   (source)
  • They also fought for the abolition of slavery and for a more humane treatment of criminals.†   (source)
  • They don't have to work, there's good food—that's the most humane thing we could do.†   (source)
  • Experts concluded that the operation was probably worse than the disease, so it was wiser and more humane to leave such procedures alone.†   (source)
  • He lived in there with a stray cat that we caught in one of those humane cat traps.†   (source)
  • Then, in a more humane tone, he asked if anyone knew the reason for the suicide.†   (source)
  • —Poison," she says, unflinching, "is unbelievably humane.†   (source)
  • We're here to kill them humanely.†   (source)
  • Does that look humane to you?†   (source)
  • The negative is if it doesn't come off, if the humane society doesn't let me in the cage.†   (source)
  • He uses a long knife and must hit exactly the right spot to kill the animal humanely.†   (source)
  • But now, in place of reassuring and soothing words that would have been humane and therapeutic, Stone yelled for help at the top of his voice.†   (source)
  • At the start of the third week, our Blockalteste was removed; he was judged too humane.†   (source)
  • Wouldn't be humane if he did.†   (source)
  • He regarded this wish for the dog's death as humane, for he could not bear, he told himself, to see anything suffer.†   (source)
  • A very humane suggestion, I think.†   (source)
  • A vampyre is not a human, although we are humane.†   (source)
  • and had failed abysmally in that endeavor too, and the chaplain was ready now to capitulate to despair entirely but was restrained by the memory of his wife, whom he loved and missed so pathetically with such sensual and exalted ardor, and by the lifelong trust he had placed in the wisdom and justice of an immortal, omnipotent, omniscient, humane, universal, anthropomorphic, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon, pro-American God, which had begun to waver.†   (source)
  • I had met a rabbit who taught me about self-immolation and how to speed up transmigration: one does not have to become worms first but can change directly into a human being— as in our own humaneness we had just changed bowls of vegetable soup into people too.†   (source)
  • They're either humanely euthanized or placed into suspended animation.†   (source)
  • In my experience, these creatures weren't the sleazeballs who'd act sexually toward prisoners; in fact, they would never fraternize with lower life-forms like us, and they reserved their most withering scorn for their colleagues who treated us humanely.†   (source)
  • Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.†   (source)
  • "The only way to resolve the problem of the cats," he said, "is to dispose of them humanely.†   (source)
  • Only in the Brotherhood had there seemed a chance for such as us, the mere glimmer of a light, but behind the polished and humane facade of Jack's eye I'd found an amorphous form and a harsh red rawness.†   (source)
  • It is our humane way of getting rid of incorrigibles who would otherwise have to be executed.†   (source)
  • I know I have these unrealistic beliefs and thoughts, that the world can be peaceful, can be healthy, people can be humane.†   (source)
  • "Even the most Latin Germans," Alessandro said, looking at Strassnitzky as if through a tunnel, "the most relaxed, and the most humane, keep and preserve meticulous records."†   (source)
  • I'm sure it would seem strange in some of your hidebound Eastern states, but the state of Illinois had a very humane, very progressive law under which I could sue him.†   (source)
  • Breaking its neck is more humane.†   (source)
  • This is Desiree Humane with the Canadian Broadcasting Service interviewing residents in the Trois Riveaux area of Quebec province, a major area of maple sugar production.†   (source)
  • That a man pleasured could so easily resolve himself to the whole spectrum of acts, indifferent and murderous and humane, and choose with such arbitrary will what he shall have to remember forever and forever.†   (source)
  • Julijonas Urbonas, the man who thought up the Euthanasia Coaster, claims it's engineered to "humanely—with elegance and euphoria—take the life of a human being."†   (source)
  • Sivaji acted for him, and being a kindly, humane man, we counted ourselves lucky.†   (source)
  • Byrum was not a great coach, that I had decided long ago, but he was a humane one; and I learned more from his frailties, his terrors, and his flawed vulnerable humanity than I would have learned from a great coach's strength.†   (source)
  • Liberal SS circles felt it would be more humane.†   (source)
  • If we really want a humane America that will, for instance, contribute to the alleviation of the world's hunger, we must realize that good intentions do not feed people.†   (source)
  • No, of course he was not a Nazi, not only because the black-and-white engraved nameplate identified him as Mr. Sholom Weiss but because—well, what would a Nazi be doing apportioning volume after volume of the earth's humane wisdom at the Brooklyn College library?†   (source)
  • For what purpose are these innocent old men and women and children, all these subtle, kind, humane people, mocked and beaten up throughout the centuries?†   (source)
  • He was a very humane killer too, for he could dispatch a beast with one blow of his tail so that it didn't know (and presumably still doesn't know) it had been killed.†   (source)
  • He was a fairly humane man toward slaves and other animals; he was an exceedingly humane man toward the erring of his own race.   (source)
  • The boy can be contained in more humane ways.†   (source)
  • That this was considered a sane or even humane option signaled that all reason had left this place.†   (source)
  • In one of them quite long, he invited him to join in a campaign to make war more humane.†   (source)
  • —thinks that Hester the Molester is both profound and humane.†   (source)
  • Well, he didn't even call the Humane Society to come check on Danny Hansford.†   (source)
  • He's been described as a compassionate man who makes contributions to the Humane Society.†   (source)
  • The humane society could not have been expected to know that turkey vultures vomit when attacked.†   (source)
  • "They were very humane poisons," replied Mum with an indignant sniff.†   (source)
  • It would be more humane if you were to find that gun fast.†   (source)
  • He worked among humane colleagues and heard stories about this nun and her routine cruelties.†   (source)
  • It was the only way to handle them humanely.†   (source)
  • The humane thing is to tell her to go home, to take the child home.†   (source)
  • Or—to put it simply—lethal injection might not be as humane as everyone wanted to believe.†   (source)
  • I stared at this relatively humane setup and felt an odd pain in my stomach.†   (source)
  • The supervision of visits also became more humane.†   (source)
  • Not if you're talking about a humane execution," the commissioner said.†   (source)
  • We devised a sure-fire way to make 'em talk, and it's perfectly humane.†   (source)
  • It wouldn't be humane to let you watch it, Molligen.†   (source)
  • Besides the evil consequences inevitably resulting to the patients from the commingling of innocent with criminal lunatics, there is reason to apprehend a deteriorating influence on the tempers and habits of the Keepers and Officers of the Asylum, unfitting them for the humane and proper treatment of the former.†   (source)
  • Though we may deplore and condemn such actions from a humane point of view, we still have to acknowledge their unconditional, relentless and irrevocable nature.†   (source)
  • The eighteen-wheeler had a sign on the back, which I could read only because it was reverse-printed white on black, a good combination for dyslexia: KINDNESS INTERNATIONAL: HUMANE ZOO TRANSPORT.†   (source)
  • Humane!†   (source)
  • He said this almost gently, as if we were wild animals, frogs he'd caught, in a jar, as if he were being humane.†   (source)
  • Because of the law, friends who hoped to talk Adams into a new and safer life indoors were not informed of his release, despite their humane requests.†   (source)
  • Josie was trying not to look at it while she worked on her class project: each student had been given a wireless-enabled Dell laptop to surf the Net for examples of humane animal research.†   (source)
  • Humane, my lord?†   (source)
  • The Palaces had been conceived as humane options—refuges for the infected until they reached a point where the madness took over.†   (source)
  • PRIVATE Kano quietly took over the camp, working with Watanabe's replacement, Sergeant Oguri, a humane, fair-minded man.†   (source)
  • She paused, as if gauging whether I was ready to talk about the inevitable, and then said, "Or the most humane thing might be to put him to sleep."†   (source)
  • Most importantly, we demonstrated to the world that if students were reared in humane, cultivated environments, it was possible for them to grow to be as sensitive and intelligent as any ordinary human being.†   (source)
  • Processing but a few days a month means we can actually think about what we're doing," he continued, "and be as careful and humane as possible."†   (source)
  • I will always cherish the memory of the graduation ceremony in 2011, when the university presented me with an honorary doctorate of humane letters.†   (source)
  • There was always some risk of to be misunderstood by other Japanese by making humane interpretation of our duty.†   (source)
  • They don't need USDA rules to ensure that the meat they're buying has been humanely and cleanly processed.†   (source)
  • Humanely raised?†   (source)
  • Their punishments were humane, and their policymakers took rehabilitation of criminal offenders very seriously, which made me excited about the award and the trip.†   (source)
  • Named after a woman who promoted the education of prisoners and championed humane conditions of confinement, Tutwiler has become an overcrowded, dangerous nightmare for the women trapped there.†   (source)
  • In debates about the death penalty, I had started arguing that we would never think it was humane to pay someone to rape people convicted of rape or assault and abuse someone guilty of assault or abuse.†   (source)
  • But I've heard that some surgeons (and not necessarily bad ones) enjoy the cutting and the blood which accompanies the humane art of surgery.†   (source)
  • Great New York Times demanded that entire Lunar "rebel" government be fetched Earthside and publicly executed— "This is clearly a case in which the humane rule against capital punishment must be waived in the greater interests of all mankind."†   (source)
  • He is humane, generous and open, warm in his friendly attachments, though perhaps rather implacable to those he thinks his enemies.†   (source)
  • It is considered more humane when hunting moose, since the aim is to put down the prey as quickly and painlessly as possible.†   (source)
  • After centuries of efforts to curb man's innate brutality, after centuries of teaching, training and indoctrination with the gentle and the humane!†   (source)
  • They said it was not humane.†   (source)
  • At the time, I was getting started in my career designing more humane facilities for animals at ranches and slaughterhouses.†   (source)
  • And yet on sighting him, on seeing him holding her so, I felt a certain sadness for him, the humane sorrow one has when one witnesses the briefest moment of another's abandon and self-loss, which is a levity, and a phantom death, and enviable enough.†   (source)
  • Overflowing with energy and goodwill, he was ardent for reform of all kinds: smallpox inoculation for the poor, humane care for the insane, reform of the penal code, but especially for the abolition of slavery.†   (source)
  • A humane obstetrician invented these instruments for mothers with the most desperate needs, not for desperate physicians.†   (source)
  • Most humane.†   (source)
  • In a civil and humane society, each man is able to fulfill those obligations according to his own inclinations and abilities.†   (source)
  • The motto of those pioneers of resuscitation, the Royal Humane Society, resounded in his ears: Lateat scintillula forsan—a small spark may perhaps be hidden.†   (source)
  • Somewhere behind that curtain, Christian was checking to make sure the rope and noose were exactly as they should be to ensure as humane a hanging as possible.†   (source)
  • Addressing a joint session of the new Congress, at the usual noon hour, December 3, 1799, Adams had delivered the most moderate, peaceable speech since his inaugural message, stressing a "pacific and humane" American stance before the world.†   (source)
  • An honest, sensible, humane man, above all the littleness of vanity and extravagances of imagination, laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show, living in modest simplicity clearly within his means and free from debts and obligations, is really the most respectable man in society, makes himself and all about him most happy.†   (source)
  • Matron mumbled something about Gebrew having disposed of them humanely and that the car exhaust was ill-advised and not sanctioned, and Gebrew should have done it well before we came back from school.†   (source)
  • It was the explicit language of the first magistrate of the nation, disclosing to his fellow citizens the honest sentiments of his heart, expressing with proper feeling and sensibility the wrongs done to his injured country, and his determination to attempt to obtain redress; while at the same time it manifested humane anxiety to avert the calamities of war by temperance and negotiations.†   (source)
  • There is something unquestionably moving about the line of utility poles coming across the marsh, moving perhaps because electricity is a bringer of miracles and the journey of the faceless utility poles is such a long one—and such a humane one.†   (source)
  • Recollection came sweeping back, and as it did Sophie had the feeling that she was the performer in a play from which the central act was missing: wasn't it only a minute or so ago (it could not have been much longer) that the child had been raging at her like an urchin storm trooper, and could this really be the same creature who was now attending to her with what might pass for humane efficiency, if hardly angelic compassion?†   (source)
  • The Nazis, as Rubenstein points out, were the first slaveholders to fully abrogate any lingering humane sentiments regarding the essence of life itself; they were the first who "were able to turn human beings into instruments wholly responsive to their will even when told to lie down in their own graves and be shot."†   (source)
  • That was the process Mark, Tradd, and I had begun as we fought for last words to say to him, as we struggled toward a humane and brotherly farewell.†   (source)
  • I only wish Cromwell had been less lenient and humane in his dealings with these pitiful, contemptible brutes.†   (source)
  • Self-terrorized, fear-haunted, alert at every hand to meet and battle back the anticipated aggressions of his environment, which are primarily the reflections of the uncontrollable impulses to acquisition within himself, the giant of self-achieved independence is the world's messenger of disaster, even though, in his mind, he may entertain himself with humane intentions.†   (source)
  • How silly and childish of me, a humanely minded opponent of war though I was, to have been horrified by those pictures.†   (source)
  • Lincoln's utter lack of personal malice during these years, his humane detachment, his tragic sense of life, have no parallel in political history.†   (source)
  • Like so many loving, humane people who, however, have to live, just like everyone else, and count on tougher souls to carry them along.†   (source)
  • The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.†   (source)
  • The history they taught him had had few battles in it but, instead, a profusion of detail about humane legislation and recent industrial change.†   (source)
  • Does it explain my astonishment of the other day when Z, most humane, most modest of men, taking up some book by Rebecca West and reading a passage in it, exclaimed, 'The arrant feminist!†   (source)
  • She had known him years before in Altamont, where he had lived for a short time as district agent for the great and humane corporation that employed him—the Federal Cash Register Company.†   (source)
  • And also I couldn't stay in bed while Caligula was being neglected, if only for the reason that he'd become dangerous through hunger, let alone the humane side of it.†   (source)
  • She made me feel, on the contrary, that instead of being serious and profound and humane, one might be—and the thought was far less seductive—merely lazy minded and conventional into the bargain.†   (source)
  • And thus she made it impossible for me to roll out my sonorous phrases about 'elemental feelings', the 'common stuff of humanity', 'the depths of the human heart', and ail those other phrases which support us in our belief that, however clever we may be on top, we are very serious, very profound and very humane underneath.†   (source)
  • We were located in no mere firetrap but had two stories of a fairly new modern building just off the Gold Coast, not far from the scene of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and, for that matter, from the Humane Society on Grand Avenue.†   (source)
  • Fat and pale, with an intelligent Circassian bow to her eyes, very humane, overreconciled to a bad lot, taking it for granted that she was too fat to get a husband and forgiving her married sisters and mobile brothers their better luck, she had a genial cry, almost male and fraternal.†   (source)
  • He would laugh and jeer at me—but you, you judge a man humanely.†   (source)
  • It is a beautiful and humane occupation.†   (source)
  • And he had the Royal Humane Society's medal with a clasp.†   (source)
  • Should my words be humanistic rather than humane?†   (source)
  • Trust its clear and humane thoughts and abhor this wrenching of the brain, this intellectual swamp.†   (source)
  • And what about the humane, unbiased character of canon law?†   (source)
  • That helped—it was chivalrous and humane of Herr Settembrini.†   (source)
  • It's really quite human, quite humane of us.†   (source)
  • "In general we must turn this bloodthirsty soldier to more humane interests," said Bilibin.†   (source)
  • He did not seem to think that he at all deserved a medal from the Humane and Magnanimous Societies.†   (source)
  • I didn't know you were here," said Fairway, with a humane look across towards that quarter.†   (source)
  • If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's humane, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.†   (source)
  • It is hoped that no ties of friendship or humane consideration will induce you to conceal the truth.†   (source)
  • Master, however, was not a humane slaveholder.†   (source)
  • The slave is sure to know who is the most humane, or cruel master, within forty miles of him.†   (source)
  • Are you likely to be more humane to me than others were yesterday?†   (source)
  • It neither made him to be humane to his slaves, nor to emancipate them.†   (source)
  • That is honourable, I mean to say, it's humane!†   (source)
  • It's always best to do the humane thing, sir; that's been my experience.†   (source)
  • Enjolras was the more virile, Combeferre the more humane.†   (source)
  • I do not say there are no humane slaveholders.†   (source)
  • God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.†   (source)
  • Manners are more humane, or laws have been passed, so that they don't dare to flog men now.†   (source)
  • The infantry have two most diabolical upward cuts, which we are too humane to use.†   (source)
  • There is little energy of character; but manners are mild, and laws humane.†   (source)
  • "Well," said the other, "there are also many considerate and humane men among planters."†   (source)
  • He continued: "You are humane, Monsieur le Cure; you have not scorned me.†   (source)
  • Not that I am less humane than others, but I did not perceive that my feelings were much affected.†   (source)
  • Let them acquit him—that's so humane, and would show what a blessing reformed law courts are.†   (source)
  • A very humane jurist once said, The worst use you can put a man to is to hang him.†   (source)
  • However, Tess became humanely beneficent towards the small ones, and to help them as much as possible she used, as soon as she left school, to lend a hand at haymaking or harvesting on neighbouring farms; or, by preference, at milking or butter-making processes, which she had learnt when her father had owned cows; and being deft-fingered it was a kind of work in which she excelled.†   (source)
  • Petitions came in to President Lincoln from distinguished citizens and organizations, strongly urging a comprehensive and unified plan of dealing with the freedmen, under a bureau which should be "charged with the study of plans and execution of measures for easily guiding, and in every way judiciously and humanely aiding, the passage of our emancipated and yet to be emancipated blacks from the old condition of forced labor to their new state of voluntary industry."†   (source)
  • "I suppose you would hardly ask me to call you a humane man," returned the doctor with a sneer, "and so my feelings may surprise you, Master Silver.†   (source)
  • Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in the course of many years?†   (source)
  • For the rest, he was fifty or thereabouts, a little inclined to corpulence, a prepossessing face, unwhiskered, and of an agreeable color—a rather full face, humanely intelligent in expression.†   (source)
  • He was a wise and humane judge, and he clearly did his honest best and fairest,—according to his lights.†   (source)
  • I felt no small degree of pride, either, in Franchise's presence at this return to humane conditions which, not an hour after Mamma had refused to come up to my room and had sent the snubbing message that I was to go to sleep, raised me to the dignity of a grown-up person, brought me of a sudden to a sort of puberty of sorrow, to emancipation from tears.†   (source)
  • What we observe here is nothing less than the difference between what is utilitarian and what is humane.†   (source)
  • Swiftly, cleanly the ambulance sped to the hospital, having picked up instantly, humanely, some poor devil; some one hit on the head, struck down by disease, knocked over perhaps a minute or so ago at one of these crossings, as might happen to oneself.†   (source)
  • The plague, the famine, the earthquake, the tempest were too spasmodic in their action; the tiger and crocodile were too easily satiated and not cruel enough: something more constantly, more ruthlessly, more ingeniously destructive was needed; and that something was Man, the inventor of the rack, the stake, the gallows, and the electrocutor; of the sword and gun; above all, of justice, duty, patriotism and all the other isms by which even those who are clever enough to be humanely disposed are persuaded to become the most destructive of all the destroyers.†   (source)
  • I have not tried either the death penalty or imprisonment for life, but if one may judge a priori, the death penalty is more moral and more humane than imprisonment for life.†   (source)
  • To an immature nature essentially honest and humane, forewarning intimations of subtler danger from one's kind come tardily if at all.†   (source)
  • The eyes of the whole harried world would soon be fixed upon this humane and gentle system, and royal butchers would presently begin to disappear; their subjects would fill the vacancies with catlings from our own royal house; we should become a factory; we should supply the thrones of the world; within forty years all Europe would be governed by cats, and we should furnish the cats.†   (source)
  • Now, in my opinion, the barrister who put forward this extraordinary plea was probably absolutely convinced that he was stating the most liberal, the most humane, the most enlightened view of the case that could possibly be brought forward in these days.†   (source)
  • Sue said no more; and for the second or third time he felt he was not quite following out the humane instinct which had induced him to let her go.†   (source)
  • But he hoped rumours had not reached as far as the deputy director, otherwise he would obviously soon find a way of making use of it to harm K., he would show neither comradeship nor humaneness.†   (source)
  • Cast in a mould peculiar to the finest physical examples of those Englishmen in whom the Saxon strain would seem not at all to partake of any Norman or other admixture, he showed in face that humane look of reposeful good nature which the Greek sculptor in some instances gave to his heroic strong man, Hercules.†   (source)
  • The voice pronounced the word "humane," with the accent on the first syllable and drew it out in an indolent, fanciful sort of way.†   (source)
  • In Moscow"— the voice pronounced it "Muoscow," drawing the word out in the same indolent way it did "humane"—"in Baku, in German spas, in Spain."†   (source)
  • They were humane enough, anticommercial enough, to call economic activity per se a danger to the salvation of the soul, that is, to humanity.†   (source)
  • It attracted various elements who were weary of their century's sophistries, of its humane, dispassionate enlightenment, and were thirsty for stronger elixirs.†   (source)
  • Every one of his brief dispatches glowed with his delight in the hierarchy of which he was now a part—rigidly honorable, ironclad, and, in its own doggedly humorous way, flexibly humane.†   (source)
  • She would probably have to get over slamming doors there, and perhaps those two extrahumanistic camps would compensate for one another, have a humane effect on her.†   (source)
  • Monsieur is trying to make fun of other people who are much greater and better and more humane than he and his ...ami bavard de la Mediterranee, son maitre grand parleur.†   (source)
  • I can't claim that I understand everything in that complicated German brain of yours, but what you say sounds humane, and no doubt you are a good young man.†   (source)
  • We are speaking of human realities—and thus of matters 'humane,' in the sense of freedom and genius, if you will forgive me the somewhat stilted phraseology.†   (source)
  • A humane prison was a half-measure, an aesthetic compromise, and although Herr Settembrini was a master of beautiful rhetoric, he understood nothing about aesthetics.†   (source)
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