Inhuman Quotes

• You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Teacher, People, Justice

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• Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten. Without human values, life is meaningless. When there is purity in thought, word and deed, human values are practised. The unity of the three H's is essential. 'Heart, Head and Hand. ' But today this unity is absent among people, with the result that men are becoming inhuman.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Meaningful, Heart, Greatness

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• One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

  Ivo Andric

  Fear, Not Afraid, Wells

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• Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

  Stephen King

  Monsters, Criminal Mind, Sometimes

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• Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

  Marian Anderson

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.241, University of Illinois Press

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• This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Literature, World, Humane

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• Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

  John Berger

  Talking, Evil, Needs

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.762, Vintage

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• Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman

  Groucho Marx

  People, Excess, Poverty

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• At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Beauty, Lying

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.14, Vintage

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• The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

  Alan Bullock

  People, Way, Corruption

  "Lord Bullock of Leafield" by Mark Frankland, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.

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• It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  War, Literature

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• Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Kings, Health

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• The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Ebola, Political Will, Nwo

  The Washington Post, December 23, 1973.

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• I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Animal, Want, Protect

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• To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

  Hugh Blair

  Unhappy, Misery, Cruelty

  Hugh Blair, Alfred Howard (Esq.) (1810). “The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.18

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• The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old human life dancing like children and drinking wine like men; for Christianity is the only frame for pagan freedom. But in the modern philosophy the case is opposite; it is its outer ring that is obviously artistic and emancipated; its despair is within.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Philosophy, Drinking

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Humanity, Devil

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2725, Delphi Classics

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• Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.

  John Lydon

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Issues, People

  "The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence". Book by John D. Marks and Victor Marchetti, 1974.

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• You must disobey an order, if the order is unfair, or inhuman. Disobedience is not something we are being taught.

  Roselyne Bosch

  Order, Taught, Unfair

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Faithful, Excess

  "Stranger in the Village", Harper's, October 1953.

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• One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.

  John Berger

  Life, Doctors, Knowing

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• you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sensual, Ethereal

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy”, p.307, 谷月社

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• I think that any black man who teaches black people to turn the other cheek and suffer peacefully after they've been turning the cheek and suffering peacefully for 400 years in a land of bondage, under the most cruel, inhuman and wicked slavemaster that any people have ever been under, he is doing those people an injustice, and he's a traitor to his own people.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Home, Humanity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.318, Grove Press

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