Kim Brooks

When I read stories of suffering, I still feel something. It seems inhuman not to. At the same time, I'm more aware than ever of how little my feeling is worth, of how - if we are to truly keep alive the conditions that make ethical life possible - it is not empathy that's needed but insight, organization, and action.

American Writer

David Attenborough

We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an inhuman thing to say. It's the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it's going to get worse and worse.

British Journalist

Fidel Castro

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

Statesman

Aditi Rao Hydari

Most of the parents in India, especially in smaller towns, fear for daughters due to the inhuman treatment meted out to them. They want her to go away, saying, 'You're not my responsibility anymore.' I don't understand: why don't we nurture our girls?

Indian Actress

Lou Doillon

I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.

French Actress

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

English Poet

Ivo Andric

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

Writer

Guillaume Apollinaire

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

French Novelist

Friedrich Durrenmatt

This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?

Swiss Author

Frederick Douglass

American Author

The word 'inhuman' has a strong negative meaning, indicating extreme cruelty.

Negative Connotation

'Inhuman' can be used to exaggerate for effect, but be mindful of the seriousness it implies.

Hyperbolic Usage

Sometimes 'inhuman' describes a feeling about actions, not actual non-human traits.

Not Always Literal

'Inhuman' emphasizes a lack of empathy and is meant to evoke strong emotional reactions.

Emotional Impact

Using 'inhuman' often involves a moral judgment of someone's actions as unacceptable.

Moral Judgement

'Inhuman' can describe abilities surpassing human norms—used for emphasis.

Beyond Normal Limits

Metaphorically, 'inhuman' shows admiration for what seems beyond normal human capabilities.

Metaphorical Use

 whose son is out serving the U.S. military, and he says, "You know what, you've put up something that someone had an incentive to put out. It shows a U.S. soldier laughing at people dying. That gives the impression, has given the impression, to millions of people around the world that U.S. soldiers are inhuman people.

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 so compassion is giving to someone else but a sense that I owe you something that's something that it's been inhuman among humans as long as we've been writing and that's one first as we chose to write about but the chimpanzees show a set of sense of specific debt I did this for you so therefore there's

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 also felt the shock of seeing the world turning inward. We realized that despite being from three different countries, we witnessed the same migration flows being dealt with in an inhuman manner, climate change or high youth unemployment. And we also had the same hopes and dreams in our everyday lives.

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 Children who couldn't be supported by their families were raised in government orphanages. Children with birth defects were labeled incurables, and confined for life to inhuman conditions. As reports began to surface, again international aid went in.

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 around here the males that were within comas until more up until as far as we know this morning oh my feelings are is that when the Inhumans went hunting last night they said to the boys okay you go that way off you go we'll be right behind you and

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 I would like to offer a concept of cities that goes in the opposite direction to modern urbanism, an attempt at converging life into a human-sized space rather than fracturing it into inhuman bigness

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 When are we going to appreciate that there is something fundamentally inhuman about limitless perfection? No one is flawless. If we want to help our young people escape the trap of perfectionism,

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 strong anchor Molly's imprint is on Emma Molly's imprint is not at all an inhuman we busy preparing a area for them near the river with with much less human contact petronella wants them to get

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 it's that much easier to file them away as someone damaged, dishonored, less than. And likewise, once someone has been branded a rapist, it's that much easier to call him a monster -- inhuman.

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 My goal is to try to help trigger a global humanizing movement that no longer tolerates soulless, inhuman places. What if our buildings inspired us

Inhuman

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Hyperbolic Usage

Not Always Literal

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