Dehumanization Quotes

“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.”

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

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

“Welcome, my son. Welcome to the machine.”

“The Jew is a parasite.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“When the individual has been banalized to the point of being able to be replaced by anyone, he is ready to be replaced by a machine.”

“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.”

“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.”

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