Dehumanizing Language Quotes

#1. The author recognizes the power of the persecuting tribe referring to members of hers consistently as "snakes" or "roaches". This dehumanizing language, she realizes, seeps into the subconscious and makes it easier to forget that fellow humans were created in God's image.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#2. You're looking at that chick like you want to roll her up in a taco and put your hot sauce all over her.

J.R. Ward

#3. Keep your head up, Legs closed, Eyes open.

Tupac Shakur

#4. The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.

Chester A. Arthur

#5. Really, you might make an effort. Honestly, I don't know what's the matter with all of you!
I do, Tiffany thought. You're like a dog worrying sheep all the time. You don't give them time to obey you and you don't let them know when they've done things right. You just keep barking.

Terry Pratchett

#6. I keep my thoughts to myself, and I think that's one of the best ways to be.

Tito Jackson

#7. He was the kind of man who brings a sour mouth to the eating of the sweetest apple.

Edith Wharton

#8. You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.

Seth Godin

#9. Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.

Mary Lee Settle