“Early Muslim references to dehumanization were overtly ethnocentric. Almost without exception, the people who are transformed into subhuman creatures—specifically, pigs, apes, and… — David Livingstone Smith Copy Share Image
To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
“Nothing disrupts dehumanization more quickly than inviting someone over, looking into their eyes, hearing their voice, and listening.” — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“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… — Bill Ong Hing Copy Share Image
“Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The most important and brave thing someone can do, I think, in the face of dehumanization, is to continue to assert their… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
“Our assignment of worth to others, our unconditional love of even those who would seem most unworthy of it, becomes our response… — John Cullinan Copy Share Image
On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“What we are now witnessing in the 21st century is the fracture or complete breakdown of families, societies, and governments as a… — Liza Lugo Copy Share Image
The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict,… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“Nixon’s dehumanization and demonization of drug offenders had been a (literally) smashing success. Tactics like these had rarely been used in the… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Diary of Dervish Advaitam (Naskaristana 2738) The other day I was reminiscing, which was the first inhumanity that lit the fuse of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Everything tends to become a satellite - even our brains may be said to be outside us now, floating around us in… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“In all my time as an activist, I've never seen a single instance where the people instigating abuse, even in the worst… — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
“Michael Pollan: "The industrialization--and dehumanization--of American animal farming is a relatively new, evitable, and local phenomenon: no other country raises and slaughters… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“During those times, they'd stand there watching me watching them. I'd pray, please. Put a pillow to my face. Clench a hand… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in violence. And I think there's an inevitably cinematic property that violence brings to the moviegoing experience. But one… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons a survivor finds it so difficult to see herself as a victim is that she has been blamed… — Diane Langberg Copy Share Image
Black Panther is a historic opportunity to be a part of something important and special, particularly at a time when African Americans… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
“Genocide is only possible when dehumanization happens on a massive scale, and the perfect tool for this job is propaganda: it keys… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“I didn't want this man touching me in those places. It wasn't that he was being inappropriate, it was just more that… — Jessica Verdi Copy Share Image
If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost:… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
In the West or anywhere else, the treatment of people in an undignified way (structural and institutionalized racism against Latinos or African… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Should we in America refuse to alter our lifestyle, I believe we will experience increasing dehumanization - of ourselves- both individually and… — Richard Baer Copy Share Image
“You are no longer human, with all those depths and highs and nuances of emotion that define you as a person. There… — Jake Wood Copy Share Image
“Unlike these verses from the Koran, references to dehumanization in the hadith compiled two or three centuries later have a distinctly anti-Jewish… — David Livingstone Smith Copy Share Image
