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  • I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

  • Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and love ephemeral......they should all eat chocolate and they will be comforted.

    Long   Drunk   Chocolate  
  • The destruction of the environment, its improper or selfish use, and the violent hoarding of the Earth's resources cause grievances, conflicts and wars, precisely because they are the consequences of an inhumane concept of development.

  • Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine people out of ten they would say they wanted nothing but this--love; while the women, judging from her own experience, would all the time be feeling, This is not what we want; there is nothing more tedious, puerile, and inhumane than this; yet it is also beautiful and necessary.

    Virginia Woolf (2013). “Ao farol: To the lighthouse: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.250, Editora Landmark LTDA
  • In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

    Interview with Kyle Buchanan, movieline.com. February 18, 2010.
  • For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former soldier, I'm here to set that record straight.

    War   Long   Soldier  
  • Margaret Fuller was already a celebrity, travelling around the world. Emerson, who was the axis around which that whole community turned, just didn't like Fourier's ideas very much. He thought it was all too rigid and programmatic. He said, "Fourier had skipped no fact but one, namely life." He thought it was an inhumane system - the day is scheduled too precisely. He didn't think it would work, and he was right.

    Thinking   Axes   Ideas  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.

  • I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

  • the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

    Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Vintage
  • People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)

    Thinking   People   Sides  
    Vince Flynn (2013). “Vince Flynn Collectors' Edition #3: Consent to Kill, Act of Treason, and Protect and Defend”, p.102, Simon and Schuster
  • Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

    Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.241, University of Illinois Press
  • Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.

    Running   Long   Trying  
  • ...choose to deal with inhumane situations in a humane way, we can turn the world around and create positive lessons for ourselves and for others.

  • The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

    "In Tapes, Nixon Rails About Jews and Blacks" by Adam Nagourney, www.nytimes.com. December 10, 2010.
  • I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.

    Stephen Fry‏ @stephenfry, twitter.com. October 16, 2009.
  • So I am deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislation that is now in place against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community here in Russia. In my opinion, it is inhumane and it is isolating.

    Gay   Bisexual   Russia  
    "VIDEO: Elton John Denounces Russia’s Anti-Gay Law at Moscow Concert" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. December 7, 2013.
  • However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know that there is something that matters in a deep way about the lives we create for the living beings most within our power. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless--it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.

  • Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?

    Fun   Animal   World  
    "Jared Leto and Ellen Page Named Sexiest Vegetarians". www.eonline.com. June 26, 2014.
  • Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person [who killed him], and Tamir's family was charged for the ambulance to take him [to the hospital]. It's inhumane.

    Government   Law   Police  
    "The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.
  • When Private Bradley [aka Chelsea] Manning put his conscience ahead of his personal well-being by allegedly releasing important information to the world's public via WikiLeaks, he was put into an inhumane solitary confinement and is now facing charges that carry the possibility of him spending the rest of his life in prison.

  • States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

  • Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.

    Law   America   Drug  
    "Soundbite: Dammit Janet". Interview with Adrienne Redd, reason.com. May 1997.
  • Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends. Of safeguarding our poetic institutions against the encroachments of mechanized, insensate, inhumane, abstract rationality.

    Humorous   Poetry   Fancy  
    "The Crane Bag". Book by Robert Graves. "The Case for Xanthippe", 1969.
  • But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.

    Commencement address at Scripps College, Claremont, California, 2009.
  • The reality is that baby boomers are turning senior citizens and not only is it inhumane, but the system will go broke. There needs to be wholesale change.

    Senior   Baby   Reality  
  • I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.

  • I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace

    War   People   Trying  
  • The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

    The Washington Post, December 23, 1973.
  • Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Convention. Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment, a few of them even unto death. But every one of us - every single one of us - knew and took great strength from the belief that we were different from our enemies, that we were better than them, that we, if the roles were reversed, would not disgrace ourselves by committing or countenancing such mistreatment of them.

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