Quotes About Dehumanization

#1. Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

Paulo Freire

#2. I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.

Kathleen Hanna

#3. Until we learn that other lives are equally grievable and have an equal demand on us to be grieved - especially the ones that we've helped to eliminate - I'm not sure we'll really be on the way to overcoming the problem of dehumanization.

Judith Butler

#4. Turning the pages of crime novels it occurs to me to ask how it's possible to write so much without saying the word "pain," "life," or "anxiety." I reject this stupid dehumanization. The behaving without motive. The horrific shutting out of what is most vital or important.

Alejandra Pizarnik

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

Vandana Shiva

#6. Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere, by force, with a persons decision to commit this act. The result is a far-reaching infantilization and dehumanization of the suicidal person.

Thomas Szasz

#7. Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

Audre Lorde

#8. Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

Saul Bellow

#9. In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.

Anthony Shadid

#10. I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.

Albert Einstein

#11. In the face of such terror and dehumanization, human passion itself was an act of defiance.

Guillermo Del Toro

#12. Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.

James A. Baldwin

#13. 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.

Clovis E. Semmes

#14. If you can laugh with somebody and relate to somebody, it becomes harder to dehumanize them. I think that most of what we are constantly bombarded with in terms of media leads you to a creation of 'the Other' and a dehumanization of 'the Other,' and it's very much an us-versus-them conversation.

Jehane Noujaim

#15. We need to undergo a very radical revolution in values. And we need to think about what it's like to have become so materialistic that we think having a good job, and consuming like crazy to compensate for the dehumanization of the job, is living like a human being.

Grace Lee Boggs

#16. But time and time again, I saw the change in their eyes once they'd conquered me. Dehumanization always follows penetration.

Maggie Young

#17. To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man who is man only in form. This is the extent to which the process of dehumanization has advanced.

Steven Biko

#18. Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Fulton J. Sheen

#19. You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.

Martha Graham

#20. People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don't much care about how well it works, just about how right it is ... they may even like it better if it inflicts enough pain.

John Barnes

#21. Once an audience feels that you trust them like you trust a friend, they do become your friends.

Signe Baumane

#22. Private Latimer had become a monster, and he must have guessed this was so. Did a girl love him before? Could she continue to?

Ian McEwan

#23. Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

Jack Vance

#24. When I'm not working, my time is really about my children.

Christine Lahti

#25. Somewhat paradoxically, the more that Africans and their descendants assimilated cultural materials from colonial society, the less human they became in the minds of the colonists.

Cedric J. Robinson

#26. To remove all credibility from what you're saying try wearing sunglasses on your forehead.

Demetri Martin

#27. None escape their shadows

Zed

#28. I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

Jackson Pollock

#29. He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#30. Dada was not an art, it was anti-art, a credo ruled by absurdity, nonsense, chance and chaos, a rejection of everything that Han believed, cherished, practiced - and it was to change art for ever

Frank Wynne

#31. In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns.

Virginia Woolf

#32. There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others, but always similar to them: therefore there are as many species as we have different structures before us today.

Carl Linnaeus

#33. Jesus brings mystery, paradox, and tension - rarely did someone get a straight answer out of Him

Mike Erre

#34. Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.

Peter Watts

#35. The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.

George Eliot

#36. Rather than looking for explanations for why all people deserve to be treated with compassion and respect, we ought to be working at creating a world in which people are treated with compassion and respect. Human rights aren't lying around waiting to be discovered. They're made, not found.

David Livingstone Smith

#37. For it was authority that turned men suspicious and stern-faced. Authority and responsibility which made them not themselves, but a sort of corporate body that tried to think as a corporate body rather than a person.

Clifford D. Simak

#38. Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.

William Shakespeare

#39. Our recent history should have made one thing clear. Women's rights are human rights. Any foreign policy that fails to recognize this effectively dehumanizes half the human race.

Jack Holland