Top 44 Inhuman Quotes

I’ve always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they’ve shared their life for 20 or 30 years.

When I read stories of suffering, I still feel something. It seems inhuman not to. At the same time, I’m more aware than ever of how little my feeling is worth, of how – if we are to truly keep alive the conditions that make ethical life possible – it is not empathy that’s needed but insight, organization, and action.

There are ups and downs in every relationship. But that does not mean that couples should separate or get down to inhuman behaviour.

For ‘Inhuman,’ it’s a ‘chess game’ series. You have a lot of pieces moving different ways at once, and it’s about what they do on their own and what happens when they collide into one another. It’s about long-range planning, new character creation, and trying to really build things.

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

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

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.

Just because people think politically different to you doesn’t mean they’re inhuman.

You can’t just blame things on evil. Everyone’s a human, so when people say that somebody’s behaving ‘inhuman,’ it’s not. It’s very human – it’s just not a very nice side of it.

Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man’s inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.

I only knew one thing about policemen: they were inhuman beasts. The problem was how to turn them into likable, sympathetic human beings. The answer was simple. Give them head colds. And first names. And keep their dialogue homey and conversational.

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

That which is inhuman cannot be divine.

As a journalist, I have spent years reporting on often difficult and depressing conflicts, on poverty, and the inhuman way we sometimes treat each other.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

The whole being-in-a-room interview thing, at a junket or a film festival, is very inhuman. You meet the person, have five or 10 minutes to talk, and it’s not like a conversation.

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.

One shouldn’t be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

Though we endow them with human features – heads, faces, heels, toes – golf clubs are profoundly inhuman tools.

I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

I’ve made my most horrible inhuman tendencies work for me.

To love one’s country, the governance should be good. But politicians are addicts of power. It is because they don’t read that they have become so inhuman. Reading is what makes humans, humans.

A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, ‘The Clock’ is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself – something almost inhuman.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Most of the parents in India, especially in smaller towns, fear for daughters due to the inhuman treatment meted out to them. They want her to go away, saying, ‘You’re not my responsibility anymore.’ I don’t understand: why don’t we nurture our girls?

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

If I didn’t forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don’t forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.

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.

For a man so incredibly hairy and square, watching my dad get on a bike was like watching a penguin spread its wings and take flight. He’d take off at inhuman speed, a smile on his face, and never look back.

I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people.

I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty… break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

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.

Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the world.

The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion.