We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.
One can not be just if one is not humane.
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
We're not inherently anything but human.
We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
We are not by nature cruel.
Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.