Inhumane Quotes - Page 3

• For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former soldier, I'm here to set that record straight.

  Allen West

  War, Long, Soldier

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• I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

  Kevin Nealon

  Animal, Vegetarian, Farming

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• However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know that there is something that matters in a deep way about the lives we create for the living beings most within our power. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless--it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Voiceless, Tests, Matter

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• Human creativity and innovation is going to make the exploitation of animals look not only inhumane but obsolete and cumbersome.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Creativity, Animal, Innovation

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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• Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Fleeting, Insight

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.158, Vintage

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• I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  "Deepak Chopra Traces Jesus' Untold Story". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. November 10, 2008.

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• Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

  Storm Jameson

  Literature, Sadistic, Torture

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.69, A&C Black

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• Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the ideology behind gold fever mobilized settlers to cross the Atlantic to an unknown fate. Subjugating entire societies and civilizations, enslaving whole countries, and slaughtering people village by village did not seem too high a price to pay, nor did it appear inhumane. The systems of colonization were modern and rational, but its ideological basis was madness.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Country, Fate, Civilization

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• I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.

  Stephen Fry

  Writing, Paper, Would Be

  Stephen Fry‏ @stephenfry, twitter.com. October 16, 2009.

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• I'm a Jewish boy from Jersey. I was born with a strong sense of right and wrong, and a strong sense that the world can be a ludicrous, unfair, inhumane place.

  Barry Sanders

  Strong, Boys, World

  "Oregon Book Award Finalist Barry Sanders: the Purposeful Rambler". www.oregonlive.com. April 16, 2011.

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• In the beginning, in 2003, there was the Iraqi resistance, which didn't want the US occupation, then they developed Al Qaeda, but even then it was never this monstrous, this inhumane and as misogynistic as what we're seeing now under ISIS.

  Yanar Mohammed

  Isis, Occupation, Want

  "Iraq's female citizens: prisoners of war". Interview with Jennifer Allsopp, www.opendemocracy.net. April 26, 2015.

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