Inhumane Quotes

I forbid that any one be killed or hung for any fault but his eyes shall be torn out or his testicles cut off. And this command shall not be violated under penalty of a fine in full to me.

The punishments were whipping, putting you in the stocks and making you wear irons and a chain at work. Then they had a collar to put round your neck with two horns, like cows' horns, so that you could not lie down on your back or belly. This also kept you from running away for the horns would catch in the bushes. Sometimes they dug a hole like a well with a door on top. This they called a dungeon keeping you in it two or three weeks or a month, and sometimes till you died in there. This hole was just big enough to receive the body; the hands down by the sides.

Crucifixion is the most wretched of deaths.

Turk: Anyone behaving as a barbarian or savage.

Without delay and without exception, you will put to the sword every Spaniard in dungeon or hospital …

Actually... I'm starting a new thing and rebelling against ridiculously high heels. It's inhumane.

Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

There are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them--none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

Eating people is wrong

I hold no views which any conservative citizen might not entertain on slavery...trading slaves is against humanity, unjust, and impolitic.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But as a business it worked.

I couldn't kill a fly.

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.

A grotesque criminal and terrorist act committed by people who have no conscience or religious values. Terrorism must be handled without mercy. Egypt will always condemn the killing and terrorizing of innocents anywhere in the world.

Satan himself could not devise a revenge appropriate for those who deliberately slaughter infants.

I willingly took John Lennon's life. What I did was despicable.

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

Religious pacifists were confined in unsanitary guardhouses—sometimes in unheated cells during winter months, without blankets …. Men were … beaten, pricked or stabbed with bayonets, jerked about with ropes around their necks, threatened with summary execution, tortured by various forms of the “water cure.”

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

Nothing will justify the killing of innocent people.

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.

A healthy person could survive on the cross for one or two days. The naked man would be jeered at and ridiculed. Insects would infest his mouth, eyes, and open wounds. With his hands nailed to the cross, he would have been unable to stop them. Left to the elements, unable to eat or drink, in constant pain, and brutally aware he was going to die, there can be no doubt that, as the ancients tell us, crucifixion was the worst of deaths.