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Quotes About Inhuman

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.
~ Joe Slovo
Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical,...
~ Jeff Lindsay
Clearly, she was enjoying herself to see that woman hurt. It was nothing she had desired. Nor did it seem as if she could control it, this inhuman sweet sensation to see another human being squirming. It hit her like a stone, the knowledge that there is pleasure in hurting. A strong three-dimensional pleasure, an exclusive masculine delight that is exhilarating beyond all measure. And this too is God's gift to man? She wondered.
~ Ama Ata Aidoo
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
Stone is a primal matter, inhuman in its duration. Yet despite its incalculable temporality, the lithic is not some vast and alien outside. A limit-breaching intimacy persistently unfolds. Hurl a rock and you'll shatter an ontology, leave taxonomy in glistening shards.
~ Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Oh my God!" Sam said again, his voice shaking. I've given birth to something inhuman, Phoebe thought. A lamprey with row after row of teeth.
~ Jennifer McMahon
We have elected to order manufacture upon inhuman lines; why should we ask for humanity in the product?
~ Eric Gill
There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.
~ Erich Fromm
You haven't I suppose ever mixed with politicians at close quarters. They're awful...their stupidity is inhuman.
~ Robert Skidelsky
SOME people are just born evil. No twisted childhood trauma, no abusive father, or alcoholic mother, just plain God-awful mean.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
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.
~ Jerry Saltz
by identifying his personal ego with the transpersonal in the shape of the collective values, the limited individual loses contact with his own limitations and becomes inhuman.
~ Erich Neumann
They never looked at anyone else, only at each other, with an expression that halted me. It was tender, loving, yes, but in an inhuman way, so intense. Divine, I felt. Or insane.
~ Anita Desai
To induce a collective content for the imagination is always an inhuman undertaking, not only because dreaming essentializes life into destiny, but also because dreams are impoverished, and the alibi of an absence.
~ Roland Barthes
To-morrow, with the rise of the sun, this human face would be distorted with an inhuman grimace, her brain would be covered with thick blood, and her eyes would bulge from their sockets and look glassy,—but now she slept quietly and smiled in her great immortality.
~ Leonid Andreyev
I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be.
~ Anna Kavan
The scorn the Nazis held for all Eastern Europeans was closely related to their decision to take the Jews from all over Europe to the East for execution. There, in a land of subhumans, it was possible to do inhuman things.
~ Anne Applebaum
I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.
~ Brigitte Bardot
He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I've made my most horrible inhuman tendencies work for me.
~ Oneohtrix Point Never
No one realized that it was the inhuman and absurd discipline imposed on him at this boarding school, where he spent eight years of his life, that completely exhausted his physical and mental energies.
~ Alice Miller
the state of nature is rather a state of injustice, of violence, of uncontrolled natural impulses, and of inhuman deeds and emotions.
~ E. Michael Jones
My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?
~ Deborah Sampson
Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.
~ Joyce DeWitt