Edward Young Quotes

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.

Humanity is best described as inhumanity.

There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

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.

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.

The norm was to kill everyone who was kidnapped. And anyone kidnapped was tortured … torture didn’t always work. It left people too destroyed …Torture is eternal. It has always existed and always will. It is an essential part of the human being …. Not one innocent person passed through my hands.

Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!

People are brutal. Just to each other.

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.

I saw the horrible way that people could treat each other. That may be the saddest thing of all. I saw greed and anger and murder and a total lack of concern for human life. It was a wicked side of the human soul that I saw... and it saddened me to know that such a dark place existed.

It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.

The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.

I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.