Ric Ocasek Quotes

I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!

The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief.

The forces of violence and oppression don't care about the innocent.

Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.

There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.

People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.

… musty deposits of 2000 years of inhumanity, intolerance and foulness.

Today's world is very cruel.

I find man's inhumanity to man extraordinary,,, I can't get my head around it.

I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.

I cannot bear to live where there is so much injustice and I cannot do something about it. What kind of a torturous life is that?

When people repeatedly hit me, I would feel a sense of unfairness.

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's just accepted.

Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.

There were two Avoxes with me in prison. Darius and Lavinia, but the guards mostly called them the redheads. They'd been our servants in the Training Center, so they arrested them, too. I watched them being tortured to death. She was lucky. They used too much voltage and her heart stopped right off. It took days to finish him off. Beating, cutting off parts. They kept asking him questions, but he couldn't speak, he just made these horrible animals sounds. They didn't want information, you know? They wanted me to see it.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.