Dehumanization Quotes

“Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized'.”

“I have been locked up for so long that I have forgotten what it is like to be a human being.”

“We are not men, we are not beasts, we are not microbes... We are a numbered series.”

“I have looked to the white man for help, and I have been told that I am not a man. I am a savage, and have no rights.”

“The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.”

“All of them deserved to die because they were the devil's agents and human garbage. I am not sorry.”

“People see you as a runner, not a person. They forget you have feelings.”

“The establishment has an interest in pretending that the oppressed are not men.”

“Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.”

“Most of you know what it means when 100 corpses are lying side by side, or 500 or 1,000. To have stuck it out and at the same time to have remained decent men, that is what has made us hard.”

“Whether other nations live in prosperity or starve to death interests me only in so far as we need them as slaves for our culture.”

“Anti-Semitism is exactly the same as delousing. Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology. It is a matter of cleanliness.”

“When a man is hunted like a wild beast he becomes ferocious.”

“I'm not a man, I'm a machine.”

“We say the person in uniform is a pig, not a human being. And that's how we have to deal with them.”

“I felt like a product, not a person.”

“What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?”

“From that moment on I ceased to be 'I' and became number 4859.”

“To make a human being into a machine is to kill the human being.”

“To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss.”