Definition of Inhuman

Inhuman

Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.

Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment.

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Inhuman Quotations

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
Lord Byron

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
Alfred Adler

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

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
Oriana Fallaci

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
Marian Anderson

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

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.
John Berger

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

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
James Baldwin

The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion.
Ernie Pyle

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.
Joe Slovo

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.
William Hull

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

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.
Alan Bullock

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
Eldridge Cleaver

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Inhuman Translations

inhuman in Dutch is onmenselijk
inhuman in German is unmenschlich
inhuman in Italian is disumano
inhuman in Latin is inhumanus
inhuman in Norwegian is umenneskelig
inhuman in Portuguese is inumano
inhuman in Spanish is inhumano

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