Top 45 Human Inhuman Quotes
#1. The starkest reality of war is that the enemy is never really a monster, never inhuman ... Every soldier is the same fallible breed of human that we are. The making of war, even the most necessary and 'just' war, hardens human hearts.
Stan Goff
#2. Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
John Berger
#3. 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
#4. This is inhuman!" shrieked Rat-catcher 2.
"No, it's very human," said Keith. "It's extremely human. There isn't a beast in the world that'd do it to another living thing, but your poisons do it to rats every day.
Terry Pratchett
#5. You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
Eldridge Cleaver
#6. He was gleaming with sweat. It would have taken inhuman willpower not to drink in every inch of his muscled, tatted up body.
And I was human. Oh Lord, was I human.
R.K. Lilley
#7. Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.
Edward W. Said
#8. Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman
Groucho Marx
#10. The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of some kind of nausea, of intellectual vertigo.
Susan Sontag
#11. Although there is a human settlement at Jakobshavn, Greenland is an inhuman landscape of never-ending wastes.
Richard Davenport-Hines
#12. The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.
Clarice Lispector
#13. There is nothing inhuman about an intelligent machine; it is indeed an expression of those superb intellectual capabilities that only human beings, of all the creatures on our planet, now possess.
Carl Sagan
#14. Look son, the Human Pig.
(shocked)Mother, y-you're inhuman!
(deadpan)Another animal could do this?
Larry Gonick
#15. The more fundamentalist a person, the more immoral and inhuman he is.
Abhijit Naskar
#16. Yet her father had taught her that failing to act in the face of human suffering is inhuman.
Corban Addison
#17. Just a little piece of peace can cultivate the land of Palestine, but inhuman human won't let it do that ...
Munia Khan
#18. His stamina was so inhuman that some wondered if he was actually human. Cook worked twelve to fourteen hours a day but insisted he was not a workaholic.
Yukari Iwatani Kane
#19. Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.
Havelock Ellis
#20. It was not so difficult to understand the warped view the Azadians had of what they called "human nature" - the phrase they used whenever they had to justify something inhuman and unnatural
Iain M. Banks
#21. Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus some pathetic ideal standard for our species that survives all betrayals.
Rose Macaulay
#22. Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?
Ray Bradbury
#23. Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.
Victor Frederick Weisskopf
#24. A howl was curdling inside me; the ache felt inhuman. Or maybe this was my first human feeling.
Miranda July
#25. It's not easy being human. Especially when you are tired and overworked all the time ... That's when you become inhuman.
Hakan Nesser
#26. 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
#27. So not every person fits into the little rooms we build to hold them. There are infinite combinations of human and inhuman, male and female, brown and white.
Lila Bowen
#28. 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
#29. The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.
Drew Gilpin Faust
#30. Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
Thomas Merton
#31. To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
Alfred Adler
#32. War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale. How can there still be any war on our miraculous planet?
Robert Muller
#33. The victory of humanity over man.
Humanity had conquered the inhuman.
And by what means? In what way? How had it overcome the giant of anger and hatred? What arms had it used? What engine of war? The cradle.
Victor Hugo
#35. But children grow up too, and they too must learn from history how easy it is for human beings to be transformed into inhuman beings through incitement and intolerance.
E.H. Gombrich
#36. Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.
James Gleick
#37. To my mind there are not enough things that show the Nazis as human, as smart people, charismatic people, who are not inhuman naturally. But who are able to be fantastically inhuman when they choose to be.
Martin Freeman
#38. Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
Stephen King
#39. Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world
Munia Khan
#40. If a machine can convincingly imitate humanity - can persuade a human being of its kinship - then what makes it inhuman? What, after all, is human thought but a series of electrical impulses?
Liz Moore
#41. Thus the word "inhuman", in this book's title, refers to the unconscionable and unsuccessful goal of bestializing (in the form of pets as well as beasts of burden) a class of human beings.
David Brion Davis
#42. History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali in Calcutta, dripped blood from its mouth as it bit and crunched.
Yukio Mishima
#43. One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.
Ivo Andric
#44. I know hardly anything about Galahad except that everybody dislikes him."
"Dislikes him?"
"They complain about him being inhuman."
Lancelot considered his cup.
"He is inhuman," he said at last. "But why should he be human? Are angels supposed to be human?
T.H. White
#45. To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
