Inhuman Quotes - Page 2

• At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

  Albert Camus

  Beauty, Art, Lying

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

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• It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

  Joe Slovo

  Ideology, Has Beens

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• To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

  Alfred Adler

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Alfred Adler (2005). “The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Journal articles : 1931-1937”, p.128, Alfred Adler Institute

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• The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized mankind under a debt to him. ...[I]t is of incalculable importance that America, Australia, and Siberia should pass out of the hands of their red, black, and yellow aboriginal owners, and become the heritage of the dominant world races.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Land, Yellow

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• Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Art, Men, Want

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• Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

  William Hull

  Sympathy, Bible, Support

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• I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Children, Would Be, World

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2008). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Major Works”, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Leader, President, Sovereign

  "Intervista con la storia (Interview with History)". Book by Oriana Fallaci (Preface), 1976.

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• We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Photography, Wall, Men

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• [Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Moving, Order, Campaigns

  December 09, 1970 Phone call with Gen. Alexander Haig, quoted in National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 123,

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• The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Unions, Emigration, Humanitarian

  "In Tapes, Nixon Rails About Jews and Blacks" by Adam Nagourney, www.nytimes.com. December 10, 2010.

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• More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Government

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• Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.

  Jerry Brown

  People, Locked Up, Locked

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• Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

  Alain Badiou

  Art, Men

  "Le siècle". Book by Alain Badiou, 2005.

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• We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what; and if somebody does accidentally make a bicycle, the union accuses us of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates the bicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Practice, Giving

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• Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

  Edward Said

  Practice, Finals, Resistance

  Edward W. Said (2014). “Orientalism”, p.29, Vintage

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• It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Law, Insanity, President

  Statement at a National Security Council meeting, 1975.

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• Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf

  Compassion, Two, Pillars

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf, V. Stefan (1998). “Physics and Society: Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weisskopf by the International Community of Physicists”, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Opposites, Desire, Theatre

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• The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

  Raymond Chandler

  Art, Becoming, Ridiculous

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.229, Grove Press

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• Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus some pathetic ideal standard for our species that survives all betrayals.

  Rose Macaulay

  Betrayal, Behavior, Standards

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.

  Erich Fromm

  Evil, Giving, Comfort

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Psychoanalysis and Religion”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Evil, Rejection

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• [W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Past, Fire, Black History

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• One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to men. Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight - brilliant, sharp but cold ... thus we are clearest where knowledge matters least: in mathematics, especially number theory.

  Hermann Weyl

  Men, Numbers, Quality

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