Capital punishment…treats members of the human race…as objects to be toyed with and discarded.William J. BrennanCrueltyDehumanizationJustice Share this
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.François de La RochefoucauldDehumanizationHatredViolence Share this
Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.Frank HerbertDehumanizationIdentityTechnology Share this
Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.Max BrooksDehumanizationPotentialProgress Share this
What’s worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.Meryl StreepDehumanizationTolerance Share this
Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.Leonardo da VinciCritiqueDehumanizationUtility Share this
This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.Lew WallaceConflictDehumanizationWarfare Share this
We have yet to learn how to retain our humaneness when assembled in masses.Lewis ThomasDehumanizationSocietyUnity Share this
Prison is not a place for humans. Period. It’s just an animal house.Lil BoosieDehumanizationPunishment Share this
Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.Luc de ClapiersDehumanizationSatisfactionSubmission Share this
Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.Miguel de UnamunoDehumanizationKnowledgeWisdom Share this
When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.George Bernard ShawDehumanizationExploitation Share this
It’s too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.Willem DafoeCriticismDehumanizationTechnology Share this
Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor’s iron brace.William BlakeDehumanizationOppressionResilience Share this
If you look at all forms of collectivism, be it communism or fascism, people are reduced to animals.Jack LarsonDehumanizationIndividualism Share this
What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.Jacqueline NovogratzDehumanizationDistance Share this
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.Heinrich HeineCensorshipDehumanization Share this
The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.Henry David ThoreauConformityDehumanizationGovernment Share this
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.Gilbert RyleDehumanizationExistentialismIdentity Share this
Talking about corporations – they’re so big. There’s not a person at a corporation.Greg KinnearCritiqueDehumanizationSize Share this
Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhumanGroucho MarxDehumanizationPovertyWealth Share this
There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one’s fellow man.Groucho MarxCrueltyDehumanization Share this
War don’t ennoble men, it turns ’em into dogs. It poisons the soul.James JonesDehumanizationWarfare Share this
Sometimes he seems like a droid–or a drone. Fang of Nine. Fang2-D2.James PattersonDehumanizationIsolationTechnology Share this
To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. Charlie Munger Achievement Deserving Success
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Jean Cocteau Deception Perception Reality
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Jean Cocteau Identity Individuality Rebellion
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Charlie Munger Worry
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Charlie Munger Criticism Past Stupidity