Inhumanity Quotes

• The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, Soulmate, Honesty

  The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 2

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• You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Teacher, People, Justice

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• Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

  Alexander Berkman

  Stupidity

  Alexander Berkman (1912). “Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist”

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• I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.

  Primo Levi

  Men, Inhumanity To Man, Death Penalty

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• What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Compassion, Rose

  Letter to Jean Nicholas Demeunier, 24 Jan. 1786

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• Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

  Robert Burns

  God, Men, Inhumanity To Man

  "ManWas Made to Mourn" st. 7 (1786)

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• More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.

  Samuel von Pufendorf

  Men, Inhumanity To Man, Done

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• The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.

  James Orbinski

  Silence, Indifference, Forget

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• Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  War, Essence, Details

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• As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.

  Herbie Hancock

  Men, Inhumanity To Man, World

  "Musical Legend Herbie Hancock Fuses Jazz, Global Rhythms". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 16, 2010.

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• Humanity is best described as inhumanity.

  Pat Conroy

  Humanity

  Pat Conroy (2010). “South of Broad”, p.265, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Essence, Indifference

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• Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Men, Inhumanity To Man

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• Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Strong, Philosophical, Animal

  "Memoirs of Childhood and Youth". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1924.

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• Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.

  Nelson Mandela

  Integrity, Consistency, Needs

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.206, Pan Macmillan

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• We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.

  Charlie Dent

  Religious, Inhumanity To Man, Holocaust

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• I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends up creating many more problems for the negro community than it solved. We can through violence burn down a building, but you can't establish justice. You can murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder through violence. You can murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. And what we're trying to get rid of is hate, injustice, and all of these other things that continue the long night of man's inhumanity to man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Night, Men

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• In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents, which is in itself a violation of the beliefs of all religions. Once we characterize our adversaries as beyond the scope of God's mercy and grace, their lives lose all value.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, War, Order

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.1030, Simon and Schuster

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• There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

  Alan Paton

  Life, Inspiring, Men

  "Power Verbs for Career Consultants, Coaches, and Mentors". Book by Michael Lawrence Faulkner (p.126), 2013.

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• That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.

  Rollo May

  Attitude, Acceptance, Men

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• With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Believe, Heart

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• Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

  Richard von Weizsaecker

  Uprising, Risk, Remember

  Sang-Jin Han, Kim Dae-Jung, Richard Von Weizsaecker (2015). “Divided Nations and Transitional Justice: What Germany, Japan and South Korea Can Teach the World”, p.282, Routledge

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• Humanity is a natural foil for inhumanity, and humanity is what will ultimately keep us going when all else has failed.

  Margaret Cho

  Compassion, Humanity, Natural

  Margaret Cho (2005). “I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as the source of inconceivable inhumanity - the sad truth is our possession of an innate proclivity towards indifference, towards deliberate denial of mercy, towards disengaging all that is moral within us. But if that is too dire , let's call it evil. And paint it with fire and venom.

  Steven Erikson

  Fire, Agency, Evil

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• Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Kind, Instinct

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.458, 谷月社

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