Inhumane Quotes

• Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

  Howard Zinn

  Taught, Action, Humane

  "Quotations on Terrorism". Book by Harry Kawilarang (p. 61), 2004.

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• The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

  Dean Koontz

  Humanity, Odd Thomas, Traits

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• It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.

  Dave Barry

  Coffee, Views, Espresso

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.126, Ballantine Books

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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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• 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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• Actually... I'm starting a new thing and rebelling against ridiculously high heels. It's inhumane.

  Nina Dobrev

  High Heels, Starting, New Things

  Exclusive Twitterview with Nina Dobrev, www.seventeen.com. May 20, 2011.

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• People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)

  Vince Flynn

  Thinking, People, Sides

  Vince Flynn (2013). “Vince Flynn Collectors' Edition #3: Consent to Kill, Act of Treason, and Protect and Defend”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

  George W. Bush

  Should Have, Law, Practice

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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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• Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives.

  George Orwell

  War, Historical, Inanimate Objects

  George Orwell (2016). “Fifty Essays (George Orwell) (Literary Thoughts Edition)”, p.502, epubli

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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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Convention. Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment, a few of them even unto death. But every one of us - every single one of us - knew and took great strength from the belief that we were different from our enemies, that we were better than them, that we, if the roles were reversed, would not disgrace ourselves by committing or countenancing such mistreatment of them.

  John McCain

  America, Enemy, Different

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• If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.

  Ed Markey

  Fighting, Enemy, Trying

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• the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

  Jessica Mitford

  Expression, Unjust, Injustice

  Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Vintage

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• So I am deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislation that is now in place against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community here in Russia. In my opinion, it is inhumane and it is isolating.

  Elton John

  Gay, Bisexual, Russia

  "VIDEO: Elton John Denounces Russia’s Anti-Gay Law at Moscow Concert" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. December 7, 2013.

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• In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

  Jacques Audiard

  Thinking, Easy

  Interview with Kyle Buchanan, movieline.com. February 18, 2010.

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• The reality is that baby boomers are turning senior citizens and not only is it inhumane, but the system will go broke. There needs to be wholesale change.

  Thomas Suozzi

  Senior, Baby, Reality

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• Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long
  at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily
  inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and
  love ephemeral......they should all eat chocolate and they will be
  comforted.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Long, Drunk, Chocolate

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• I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.

  Paul Krassner

  Thinking, Mainstream Culture, Hypocrisy

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• I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace

  Thurston Moore

  War, People, Trying

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• But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Integrity, Expression, Ideas

  Commencement address at Scripps College, Claremont, California, 2009.

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• Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?

  Ellen Page

  Fun, Animal, World

  "Jared Leto and Ellen Page Named Sexiest Vegetarians". www.eonline.com. June 26, 2014.

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