Human Treatment Quotes

I think that the important thing to consider here - Hubert Humphrey said that a society is measured by how he treats those in the dawn of life, those in the shadows of life, and those in the twilight of life. And it is true that Terri Schiavo lives among us in the shadows of life, but she is not brain dead. She feels pain.

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.

All we want is to be treated like human beings, and not to be patronized, or experimented on like guinea pigs.

Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.

America must be a model citizen if we want others to look at us as a model. We can’t torture or treat inhumanely suspected terrorists we have captured.

Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people.

People just deserve to be treated with kindness.

With bullying and all the stuff going on, words are very important. Words can be more hurtful than anything physically. I got little kids, and it's common sense when you're raising them that the main thing is how you talk to people, and how you treat people. Sometimes I think the world forgets that as we get older.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human cousins.

I would like to put forward a simple thesis that should no longer be at all controversial: it is now objectively the case that our national interests are increasingly affected not just by what happens between states, but also by how people are treated within states.

You'd like to think we're past certain things, the way we treat people. I thought we were at a time where you love your neighbor as yourself. But as I've studied history - it hasn't repeated itself necessarily, but it's dressed a little different and is acting the same.

We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.

Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.

How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.

But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.

Everybody knows that prison is not a good place for anyone, and nobody would feel proud to be there. But I'd like to mention that I was treated really well in there.

The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings.

I want to be happy. We all want to be happy. I want to be treated like a normal human being, but I also want to be on stage in a fancy dress, so I'm trying to find a happy medium.

She had been sharing a house with him for a week, and he had not once flirted with her. He had worked with her, asked her opinion, slapped her on the knuckles figuratively speaking when she was on the wrong track, and acknowledged that she was right when she corrected him. Dammit, he had treated her like a human being.