Inhuman Quotes - Page 7

• All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.

  Kate Sheppard

  Inspirational, Sex, Race

  "Women, Politics, And Power : A Global Perspective" by Melanie M. Hughes, (p. 47), 2007.

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• Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and cruelty, and suffering, and pain, and sobbing, and derision; the heart-rending and spasmodic laughter of the insane or condemned.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Laughter, Pain, Heart

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1911). “In Desert and Wilderness”, p.148, Jester House Publishing

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• We make movies about remarkable people like President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives in "The Island President" and Al Gore in the film, who get up every day and are driven in an almost inhuman way to make a change in a problem that they see in the world and shine truth into a very dark arena where bad actors try to lie to the American public to gain profits for fossil fuel companies. To us, that's a natural drama. And that's primarily where we work - character-based films that we hope will bring issues to life through their stories.

  Jon Shenk

  Drama, Lying, Dark

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• But there's something about the simplicity of Auschwitz... there's just nothing. There's just photographs, there's a room full of limbs, a room full of hair, and then you go into the place where the gas chambers were. You walk down these halls and the efficiency of it is so inhuman. The place is so powerful, just for its utter bald, bare simplicity.

  David Heyman

  Powerful, Simplicity, Photograph

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world of tangible reality; I was an extreme element of society who lived in space and who had no means of coming back to earth. Jean Tinguely saw me in space and signaled to me in speed to show me the last machine to take to return to the ephemerality of material life.

  Yves Klein

  Mean, Reality, Blue

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962". Book by Yves Klein, p. 47, 1974.

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• In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me. My teachers were inhuman beings [Unmenschen], my colleagues were bad company, inducing me to secret sin; my body was frail, my spirit raw.

  Moses Hess

  Teacher, Years, Secret

  "Hess' Diary" by Moses Hess, September 16, 1836.

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• I do not like the Broadway theatre because it does not know how to say hello. The tone of voice is false, the mannerisms are false, the sex is false, ideal, the Hollywood world of perfection, the clean image, the well pressed clothes, the well scrubbed anus, odorless, inhuman, of the Hollywood actor, the Broadway star. And the terrible false dirt of Broadway, the lower depths in which the dirt is imitated, inaccurate.

  Julian Beck

  Sex, Stars, Broadway Theatre

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• Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.

  Ba Jin

  Museums, Heaven, Revolution

  "Pioneers of Modern China: Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese". Book by Khoon Choy Lee, 2005.

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• A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Stupid, Character, Ideas

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• Separate religion from morality, and you have the true energy for evil within man, the terrible, cruel, devastating, and inhuman principle which naturally lies in his spirit. Here the division of the indivisible punishes itself most awfully.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Lying, Men, Evil Within

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• It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Reflection, Glasses, Mankind

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• I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Worst, Shows

  Interview with Professor Georg Klein, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Men, Cities

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

  Seneca the Younger

  Forgiveness, Forgiving

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• I love music. I love making songs. I feel like I've been given a path where I can contribute, where I can protest if somebody does something really obviously wrong or inhuman right in front of me, where I can make a difference. Where I can most especially elevate, make you happy, elevate the condition, elevate the thing.

  David Crosby

  Song, Differences, Making A Difference

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Our prison in Georgia is a very different place from this prison here in Berlin. The conditions there are inhuman.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Different, Georgia, Berlin

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.

  Lou Doillon

  Movie Love, Acting, World

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• Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Growing Up, Book

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• Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Men, Uniforms, Assault

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• No one must use the name of God to commit violence. To kill in the name of God is a grave sacrilege. To discriminate in the name of God is inhuman.

  Pope Francis

  Names, Use, Violence

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• An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

  Elie Wiesel

  Suffering, Indifference, Humans

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• It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

  Anthony Burgess

  Evil, Clockwork

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I wonder how long this word will last, governed exclusively by the merciless, inhuman and immoral criteria of global economy. Seeing the shadow of distant islands, I imagined one still inhabited by a tribe of poets set aside for when, after the middle age of materialism, humanity will have to start to put other values into his existence.

  Tiziano Terzani

  Islands, Long, Humanity

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• ... the long-lasting humanitarian impact of these inhuman weapons continues to deny communities the opportunity to rebuild long after the end of the conflicts.

  Kofi Annan

  Opportunity, Impact, Long

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• The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of some kind of nausea, of intellectual vertigo.

  Susan Sontag

  Change, Historical, Intellectual

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