Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.
(Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary)
I posit a theory: the privileged being which we call human is distinguished from other animals only by certain double-edged manifestations which in charity we can only call "inhuman."
(R. A. Lafferty: Arrive at Easterwine)
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