Quotes about Inhumanity

Fear exists before and after, but not while the shots are being fired, because, at that moment, you see men at their very limit, capable of the most heroic of actions and the most inhumane.

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

For this reason I believe that only humans are capable of true evil—only we can sit down and, in cold blood, work out ways to torture people, to inflict pain. Carefully plan horrific cruelty.

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

That which is inhuman cannot be divine.

Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even you father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore. And you are hurting yourself. In fact, you should be getting his rations...

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.