Quotes About Dehumanization

An extermination center can only manufacture corpses; a society of total domination creates a world of the living dead...

But even though catastrophic oppression brought about a process of objectification and dehumanization, the absolute negation of humanity was not possible because a damaged human spirit seeks to resurrect and reconstruct itself; it also seeks self-consciousness.

The slaves of developed industrial Civilization are sublimated slaves, but they are slaves, for slavery is determined "neither by obedience nor by hardness of labour but by the status of being mere instrument, and the reduction of man to the state of a thing.

Half-starved humans are really neither masculine nor feminine but genderless, like objects.

E assim como eles, também os semimortos de fome não são de facto nem masculinos nem femininos, mas objectivamente neutros como objectos, talvez comuns-de-dois.

Historical fact: people stopped being human in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of assembly line.

We live in an age of publicity and hype. There's something about success that dehumanizes you, whereas failure reminds you of who you really are.

Work ends up dehumanizing people.

Bir erkeÄŸe hayvan demek ona iltifat etmektir; o bir makine, yürüyen bir vibratördür.

To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men use women. Use them for what ?Surely not pleasure.

We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe.

He had ceased to be Shimonkeh when they took his mother. He ceased to be Shimon when they took his clothes and half his hair. He was prisoner #641, a slave belonging to Albert Speer.

That dehumanizing loss of safety. It is something all of us feared and many of us knew firsthand.

Just as a person, by virtue of his race alone, can be considered racist without having a racist bone in his body, someone can also, by virtue of his gender, be considered sexist. The leftist march toward dehumanization transcends the multiple categories of victimhood.

It's through media that dehumanizing ideas are spread and reproduced. That's why totalitarians out a premium on destroying freedom of the press.

It's through media that dehumanizing ideas are spread and reproduced. That's why totalitarians puts a premium on destroying freedom of the press.

When enemy is thought of as filth, war is conceived as a grand hygiene operation.

Subhumans, it was believed, are beings that lack that special something that makes us human. Because of this deficit, they don't command the respect that we, the truly human beings, are obliged to grant one another. They can be enslaved, tortured, or even exterminated—treated in ways in which we could not bring ourselves to treat those whom we regard as members of our own kind. This phenomenon is called dehumanization.

Olmsted inquired of the man if he found it "disagreeable" to whip the slaves. "I think nothing of it," he drawled in response. "Why, sir, I wouldn't mind killing a nigger more than I would a dog."5

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too many in the mobs "have eyes, but see not, ears but hear not, and they rush to their work of death as pitilessly as the tiger rushes upon his prey."11 The beast in the dark recesses of the human psyche was in the mob, not in the victim of ritual violence.

the first leg of their journey from humanity to cattle; with sorting and feeding and starvation and suffocation and pestilence and death; with slave ship stenches and mutinies of crew and cargo; with the jettying of cargoes before the guns of British cruisers; with auction blocks and sales and profits and losses

Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.

As for the claim that drone 'pilots' are not engaged in the extinguishing of human life via video games, the military's own term for its drone kills - 'bug splat,' which happens to be the name of a children's video game - and other evidence negates that.