In the face of such terror and dehumanization, human…

The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their…

— Theodor Adorno

Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches…

— Rich Mullins

“To some perhaps it may appear a little strained to place this last-mentioned form of attachment on a level of importance with the others,…

— Edward Carpenter

That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.

— Anita Shreve

“La mer is so much greater, so much grander than any petty human passion. It is itself, with no apologies and no explanations." Rosalind”

— Elaine Leclaire

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human…

— Anonymous

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality…The most ideal…

— George Santayana

“But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity. This…

— Laura Hillenbrand

“Soldier on guard says they've identified “someone on two legs a hundred metres from the outpost”. The other soldier, in the lookout, says “A…

— Selma Dabbagh

“It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of any war,…

— Ashley Montagu

“One of the reasons a survivor finds it so difficult to see herself as a victim is that she has been blamed repeatedly for…

— Diane Langberg

“During those times, they'd stand there watching me watching them. I'd pray, please. Put a pillow to my face. Clench a hand around my…

— Julie Anne Peters

I'm really interested in violence. And I think there's an inevitably cinematic property that violence brings to the moviegoing experience. But one still has…

— Karyn Kusama

“Nothing disrupts dehumanization more quickly than inviting someone over, looking into their eyes, hearing their voice, and listening.”

— Sarah Schulman

[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets…

— John Stott