Quotes About Dehumanization

The world of efficiency and anonymity dehumanises us. We have to ask who the invisible people are. Who makes our clothes? Who picks our vegetables? And how are they treated?

Corporations turned the human into a robot a long time ago.

She would not show her personality, and even if she did, nobody would see it; they would be too distracted by the thought of a mechanical cunt, endlessly absorbing discharge.

I don't think you would just be treated like a member ofan agency. You'd be treated like an asset. And assets don't get to have lives.

The human shapes moving past him in the streets of the city were physical objects without any meaning.

You can't do that shit to your own kind. They have to be turned into the other first. Dehumanized.

People force a despised minority to live in squalor, which makes them seem animalistic and subhuman, which encourages the dominant group to mistreat them further, which degrades them still further, removing any remaining tug on the oppressors' conscience.

These are evil actions. No excuses are available for engaging in them. To dehumanize a fellow being, to reduce him or her to the status of a parasite, to torture and to slaughter with no consideration of individual innocence or guilt, to make an art form of pain—that is wrong.

Zaklju?ak toga procesa? ''Neka su djela u sebi toliko užasna da se protive samoj naravi ljudskoga Bi?a''. Ta je istina temeljna, vrijedi za sve kulture, za svako vrijeme i prostor. ''Postoje zla djela koja se ni?im ne mogu opravdati. Dehumanizirati ljudsko bi?e, uniziti muškarca ili ženu do razine parazita, mu?iti ih i zaklati ne razmišljaju?i o njihovoj nevinosti ili krivnji, nanošenje boli pretvoriti u umije?e - pogrješno je.

Tu sei 'affittato' dal coronel.." Trovai strano il termine: "La gente affitta una macchina, un mulo, tutto, ma un uomo no." "E invece in queste terre del Sud si affittano anche le persone" Il termine mi umiliava. Affittato...Ero ridotto a meno di un uomo.

Exterminate all the brutes!

The New York Herald reported that a German soldier had been seen carrying a bagful of ears. Another newspaper accused Germany of melting down the enemy dead to manufacture soap.

In Europe we felt that our enemies, horrible and deadly as they were, were still people. ... But out here I soon gathered that the Japanese were looked upon as something subhuman and repulsive; the way some people feel about cockroaches or mice.

In this place a mind was at work to negate the image of a free and intact man. It intended to rely on man power in the same way that it had relied on horsepower. It wanted units to be equal and divisable, and for that purpose man had to be destroyed as the horse had already been destroyed.

La mécanisation de l'homme avait fait de l'Europe un désert.

Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?

To effectively create the image of an enemy you have to show first of all that the enemy is extremely dangerous, but on the other hand less than human.

I could see how the Ambossans had hardened their hearts to our humanity. They convinced themselves that we do not feel as they do, so that they do not have to feel anything for us. It's very convenient and lucrative for them.

Once demonized, the immigrant can be dehumanized. Dehumanization commodifies the immigrants. The immigrant-as-commodity is not precious. Rather, the immigrants-as-commodities are likened to "hazardous waste dumps.

Our country comes from a centuries-long culture of dehumanizing black and brown bodies. So what role does racism play? A huge role. You can't downplay how deeply woven and embedded this is in our country.

I've learned that unfeeling, bloodsucking men like you need to reduce women to manageable cliches, even to destroy them, for the sake of control.

The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual's own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.

The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them.

What for Hitler , the sole, lonely plotter of the Final Solution (never had a conspiracy, if such it was, needed fewer conspirators and more executors), was among the war's main objectives, with its implementation given top priority, regardless of economic and military considerations, and what for Eichmann was a job, with its daily routine, its ups and downs, was for the Jews quite literally the end of the world.