Inhuman Quotes - Page 4

• You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.

  Wallace Stegner

  Garden, Color, Green

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub

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• There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird, all of it is human and all humanity is better than everything inhuman. So I urge you to keep expressing yourself as honestly as you can, and know that the backpedals and second-guesses really aren't necessary - they don't hurt but they're wasting your time - because when you are truly human, as we all are, and when that is your honest message to anyone, you are beyond reproach, there is no way to screw it up.

  Dan Harmon

  Hurt, People, Humanity

  Redit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 22, 2012.

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• We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it.

  Annie Dillard

  Mind, Stones, Watches

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.67, Canongate Books

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• And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Men, Hair

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• I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't make any sense, it's counter intuitive, it's inhuman and it has to stop.

  Mehcad Brooks

  Rights, Way, Treats

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• If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive.

  Tony Blair

  Forgiving, Suffering, Responsible

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, delivered 17 July 2003, Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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• Acquaintance; companion;
  One dear brilliant woman;
  The best-endowed, the elect,
  All by their youth undone,
  All, all, by that inhuman
  Bitter glory wrecked.

  William Butler Yeats

  Brilliant, Youth, Bitter

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fighting, Thinking, Terror Attacks

  "Winter Olympics: Putin cautions gay visitors to Sochi". www.bbc.com. January 17, 2014.

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• Our inhuman enemy inspires the thought that God loves mankind, and that He quickly forgives this sin. But when we observe the guile of demons, then we see that after the commission of the sin, they suggest to us that God is a righteous and implacable Judge. The first they say in order to lead us to sin, the second, in order to weigh us down in despair.

  John Climacus

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Attitude, Men, Long

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• I think thing that makes Batman so endlessly interesting is that he's one of the most flawed and deeply human characters, even though he seems completely the most inhuman and infallible in costume. Psychologically he's one of the most complicated in both his strengths and his weaknesses. For me, one of his great strengths and weaknesses is that confidence. His emotional self-protection is one of the things that makes him heroic and sacrificing; he doesn't have a personal life. He sacrifices those to be the best hero he can be.

  Scott Snyder

  Hero, Character, Sacrifice

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• Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Men, Film

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• When consequentialist theories are developed in terms of an equally shallow psychology of the good - such as a crude form of hedonism - the results can sometimes strike sensible people as revolting and inhuman. People can be reduced to simple repositories of positive or negative sensory states, and their humanity is lost sight of entirely.

  Allen W. Wood

  Simple, Sight, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.

  Elton John

  Writing, Artist, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be.

  Anna Kavan

  People, Wish, Mountain

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• You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the means, even the vile means. You are wrong: The goal is in the path on which you arrive at it. Every step of today is your life of tomorrow. No great goal can be reached by vile means. That you have proven in every social revolution. The vileness or inhumanity of the path to the goal makes you vile or inhuman, and the goal unattainable.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Mean, Thinking, Goal

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• To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.

  Maxine Kumin

  Writing, Odds, Hatred

  Maxine Kumin (2000). “Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry”

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• It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Bless, Cursed

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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 phenomen. To the same degree that I do not understand power, I do understand those who oppose power, who criticize power, who contest power, especially those who rebel against power imposed by brutality.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Power, Leader, President

  "The Agitator: Oriana Fallaci directs her fury toward Islam" by Margaret Talbot, in The New Yorker, June 5, 2006.

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• What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Politics, Superficial, Concern

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.226, Graphic Arts Books

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• We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

  Margaret Halsey

  Communication, Perfection, Tides

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them.

  Dora Russell

  Children, Business, Work

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• The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered at. If powerful oil trusts no longer despoil and humiliate our country it is not because these predators have become human, but because we have won a hard-fought battle which has been going on since the beginning of the century.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Powerful, Men

  "The Shah's Story". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, p. 59, 1980.

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• Killing a cop just because he's a cop, that'll happen. And that should happen. And there's nothing inhuman about it at all. It's survival. It's the most human thing in the world.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Survival, World, Cop

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