Quotes for All
If the philosophy of Christianity were lived, wars would cease, unhappiness would cease, economic problems would be solved, poverty would be wiped from the face of the earth, and man’s inhumanity to man would be transmuted into a spirit of mutual helpfulness. Ernest Holmes
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. Erich Fromm
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity. Eric Hoffer
The burden of all song and praise unto the Highest has been that God stands for justice and mercy. Yet injustice among men is ever on the increase; the outrages committed against the masses in this country alone would seem enough to overflow the very heavens. But where are the gods to make an end … Read more
No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man’s inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is … Read more
You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman. Eldridge Cleaver
Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man. Edward Young
The world will rightfully be upset over so much inhumanity, and a hate will burn that can never be extinguished. How long will this reign of terror continue? Friedrich Kellner
The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere. Frantz Fanon
Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions Frantz Fanon