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inhuman
«I never saw any of man's baser acts of inhumanity to man. I never saw screaming 'witches' burned at the stake, Christians tossed to starving lions, maidens pushed over the edge of active volcanoes. I never even saw a man going to the electric chair. But until I do, watching Ben Hogan walk up to a five-foot putt is my idea of cruel and inhuman punishment, only a Hitler would enjoy. You feel like saying 'Go home to your wife and kiddies and don't look upon this terrible thing!'»
Author: Jim Murray
(Writer)
| Keywords:
baser, ben, Ben Hogan, burned at, burned at the stake, burning at the stake, chair, electric, electric chair, go home, Hitler, hogan, inhuman, kiddies, kiddy, lions, look upon, Maidens, Over the Edge, pushed, putt, screaming, stake, starving, tossed, volcanoes, walk-up
«One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
abstract, callous, cynical, disillusion, disillusioned, idealism, inhuman, patients, They Live, uncertain
«Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.»
Author: Marian Anderson
(Singer)
| About:
Fear
| Keywords:
disease, eating away, eats, eat away, inhuman
«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.»
«I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Age,
Children,
Melancholy,
Reflection,
Thought,
World
| Keywords:
inhuman
«At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
clothed, denseness, henceforth, hills, illusory, inhuman, outline, outlines, Outlining, Paradise Lost, remote, strangeness
«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.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
brutal, differences, impractical, inhuman
«Much that is dreadful and inhuman in history, much that one hardly likes to believe, is mitigated by the reflection that the one who commands and the one who carries out are different people. The former does not behold the sight and does not experience the strong impression on the imagination. The latter obeys a superior and therefore feels no responsibility for the acts.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
behold, carries, commands, dreadful, former, hardly, impression, inhuman, in history, latter, likes, mitigate, mitigated, mitigates, obeys, reflection
«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»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Belief,
Faith
| Keywords:
confronted, driven, excesses, free of, impossibility, inhuman, remaining