Dehumanization Quotes
18 quotes by 15 authors
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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…
— James A. Baldwin
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Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.
— Saul Bellow
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We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying…
— Thomas Szasz
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There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto…
— Eric Hoffer
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I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.
— Kathleen Hanna
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How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to be 'hosts' of…
— Paulo Freire
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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…
— Albert Einstein
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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…
— Steven Biko
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The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own…
— Theodor Adorno
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
— Audre Lorde
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For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts…
— Audre Lorde
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He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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…
— Thomas Szasz
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets itself…
— John Stott
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Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be…
— Alan Watts
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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…
— Paulo Freire
Who Wrote These Dehumanization Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 18 Dehumanization Quotes as follows: