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1 " 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 , Unpopular Essays
2 " Some animal rights activists are demanding vegetarianism, even veganism now, or nothing. But since only 4 or 5 percent of Americans claim to be vegetarians, 'nothing' is the far more likely outcome. I ask these activists to weigh the horrors of Bladen County's industrial farms and the Tar Heel slaughterhouse against the consequences of doing nothing to alleviate the hour-to-hour sufferings of its victims. Is not a life lived off the factory farm and a death humanely inflicted superior to the terrible lives we know they lead and the horrible deaths we know they suffer in Bladen County today? "
― , An American Trilogy: Death, Slavery, and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River
3 " Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to not caring–to the carelessness of both producers and consumers that characterizes our economy today. Of course, the global economy couldn't very well function without this wall of ignorance and the indifference it breeds. This is why the American food industry and its international counterparts fight to keep their products from telling even the simplest stories–" dolphin safe," " humanely slaughtered," etc.–about how they were produced. The more knowledge people have about the way their food is produced, the more likely it is that their values–and not just " value" –will inform their purchasing decisions. "
4 " It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it. "
― Erin Gruwell , The Freedom Writers Diary
5 " Do you suffer fromcallous-narrow-minded biases?I’m humanely secondhand embarrassed for you. "
6 " The multifaceted nature of the strong points of the enemy in this brutal warfare calls for nothing less than a global scale collaborative response that is stubbornly radical, yet humanely civil. "
― Ray Anyasi , How to Terrorize Terrorism: a more effective answer to global terrorism
7 " The ghastly mother-in-law is well represented by a little comedy film of 1952: No Room for the Groom, directed by Douglas Sirk, the fine German director more famous for his melodramas that humanely criticize American morals and values. "
8 " Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government. "
