Inhuman Quotes - Page 6

• Revenge is an inhuman word.

  Seneca the Younger

  Revenge

  "De Ira". Book by Seneca the Younger, II. 31, 45 AD.

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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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• 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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• We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that’s what’s happening. Too many people there. They can’t support themselves — and it’s not an inhuman thing to say. It’s the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it’s going to get worse and worse.

  David Attenborough

  Views, People, Support

  "David Attenborough - Humans are plague on Earth" by Louise Gray, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 22, 2013.

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• Kill me then,' panted Harry, who felt no fear at all, but only rage and contempt. 'Kill me like you killed him, you coward-' DON'T-' screamed Snape, and his face was suddenly demented, inhuman, as though he was in as much pain as the yelping, howling dog stuck in the house behind them- 'CALL ME A COWARD!

  J. K. Rowling

  Dog, Pain, House

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• This inhuman place makes human monsters.

  Stephen King

  Halloween, Monsters, Humans

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• An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

  Elie Wiesel

  Suffering, Indifference, Humans

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• Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone are the civilized beings who talk of manners and journeys and letters; in their places are two bodies straining to give birth to a burst of inhuman pleasure followed by a great, floating nothingness. An explosion of life followed by death - in this we live, and in this we foreshadow our own sweet deaths.

  Margaret George

  Sweet, Journey, Self

  Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.262, Pan Macmillan

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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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• 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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• Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?

  Ray Bradbury

  Martian Chronicles, Humans

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Illustrated Man”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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 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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• There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.

  Joseph Conrad

  Law, Justice, Principles

  Joseph Conrad (1996). “Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard”, p.341, Wordsworth Editions

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• Was it like this? (Jesse) (Jesse made an inhuman ghost noise.) That sounds like Darth Vader choking on a chicken bone. (Gloria)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sound, Noise, Ghost

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• To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

  Seneca the Younger

  Forgiveness, Forgiving

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• You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is tomorrow's life. Great ends cannot be attained by base means. You've proved that in all your social upheavals. The meanness and inhumanity of the means make you mean and inhuman and make the end unattainable.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Mean, Thinking, Upheaval

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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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• 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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• Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit. And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Fashion, Responsibility, Animal

  "The Abolition Of Torture". newrepublic.com. December 19, 2005.

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• 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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• I think it perfectly just, that he who, from the love of experiment, quits an approved for an uncertain practice, should suffer the full penalty of Egyptian law against medical innovation; as I would consign to the pillory, the wretch, who out of regard to his character, that is, to his fees, should follow the routine, when, from constant experience he is sure that his patient will die under it, provided any, not inhuman, deviation would give his patient a chance.

  Thomas Beddoes

  Death, Character, Science

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• So what you are doing, be aware, observe it, and then go on meditating. Soon you will begin to feel the change. Now there is no possessiveness in relationship. By and by, possessiveness disappears. And when possessiveness is not there, relationship has a beauty of its own. When possessiveness is there, everything becomes dirty, ugly, inhuman.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Dirty, Goes On

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