{"quotes":[{"text":"But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity. This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.","author":"Laura Hillenbrand","tags":["captivity","complex-ptsd","dehumanization","dehumanize","held-captive","inhumane","no-longer-human","prisoners-of-war","self-respect","survivors-of-war","traumatic-experiences","traumatized","war","worthlessness"],"id":47774,"author_id":"Laura+Hillenbrand"},{"text":"The scientific study of suffering inevitably raises questions of causation, and with these, issues of blame and responsibility. Historically, doctors have highlighted predisposing vulnerability factors for developing PTSD, at the expense of recognizing the reality of their patients' experiences… This search for predisposing factors probably had its origins in the need to deny that all people can be stressed beyond endurance, rather than in solid scientific data; until recently such data were simply not available… When the issue of causation becomes a legitimate area of investigation, one is inevitably confronted with issues of man's inhumanity to man, with carelessness and callousness, with abrogation of responsibility, with manipulation and with failures to protect.","author":"Bessel A. van der Kolk","tags":["avoidance","blame","humanity","inhumane","inhumanity","minimization","posttraumatic-stress-disorder","psychology","psychology","ptsd","responsibility","science","society-denial","suffering","trauma","truth"],"id":127401,"author_id":"Bessel+A.+van+der+Kolk"},{"text":"If we are not registering bad events in history to learn from them, then why are we even still publishing them at all? Is it really an outlandish ideal to want a peaceful and prosperous nation, one ruled only by compassion, truth and justice? As of now, there is no peace, no truth, no prosperity, no compassion - and NO COMMON SENSE. Since when did the words human and inhumane share the same meaning?","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["common-sense","human","inhumane","justice","leadership","nation","political","politics","propsperity","truth"],"id":140309,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Every insecure soul has a government of their own and a paid judge in their court room.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["backwards","blindsighted","closed-off","cyberbullying","false-sense-of-control","fearful","inhumane","insecurity","judgement","lack-of-control","lack-of-humanity","sinner","truth"],"id":143308,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called 'faith.' What man, who ever thinks, can believe that blood can appease God? And yet, our entire system of religion is based upon that belief. The Jews pacified Jehovah with the blood of animals, and according to the Christian system, the blood of Jesus softened the heart of God a little, and rendered possible the salvation of a fortunate few. It is hard to conceive how the human mind can give assent to such terrible ideas, or how any sane man can read the Bible and still believe in the doctrine of inspiration.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["blood","christ","doctrine","faith","inhumane","jews","sacrifice"],"id":149751,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselves that they are engaged in noble and courageous acts.","author":"Noam Chomsky","tags":["deception","delusion","evil","inhumane"],"id":194728,"author_id":"Noam+Chomsky"},{"text":"Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["animal","apathyconscience","caring","compassion","danger","ego","empathy","ethics","evil","god","greed","honorable","human","humanism","inhumane","integrity","logic","man","mindless","politics","principles","reason","righteousness","sanity","savage","sensitivity","sympathy","warning"],"id":211224,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our doors and hide our children. Their aim is to make us fear life itself! They want us to hate. They want us to hate 'the other'. They want us to practice aggression and perfect antagonism. Their aim is to divide us all! They want us to be inhuman. They want us to throw out our kindness. They want us to bury our love and burn our hope. Their aim is to take all our light! They think their bricked walls will separate us. They think their damned bombs will defeat us. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that my soul and your soul are old friends. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that when they cut you I bleed. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that we will never be afraid, we will never hate and we will never be silent for life is ours!","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["activism","activist","advocacy","afraid","aggression","aim","animosity","annihilate","annihilation","antagonism","arms","barricade","battle","bleed","bomb","bombs","burn","bury","camaraderie","change","children","community","conflict","corrupt","corruption","cut","dark","darkness","defeat","disapprove","divide","division","donald-trump","door","execute","execution","extortion","famine","fear","fight","friends","futile","genocide","government","hate","hatred","hide","home","hope","hope-poems","hopeful","hopeless","hopelessness","hostility","houses","human","humane","humanity","humanness","hunger","ignorance","ignorant","inhuman","inhumane","inspiration","inspirational","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kill","kind","kindness","kojouri","life","life-poems","light","love","love-revolution","love-trumps-war","love-wins","massacre","media","murder","no-wall","object","objection","obliterate","one-earth","one-love","one-nation","oneness","otherness","outcry","peace","politicians","politics","protest","rebel","rebellious","revolt","revolution","scar","scared","scary","separate","separation","silence","silent","solidarity","solidarity-poems","solidarity","soul","trump","understand","union","unity","unity-poems","unity","walls","war","war-poems","war","wholeness"],"id":296829,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"The lower a human being descends, the more asleep and inhumane he becomes. Those beings that lack Compassion, Love, and Peace are the true targets of the ego system...","author":"Jacqueline Ripstein","tags":["compassion","controlling-your-emotions","egotism","inhumane","love","pain","painful","suffering"],"id":381524,"author_id":"Jacqueline+Ripstein"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}