{"quotes":[{"text":"What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank. Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.” Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up.","author":"Jessica Valenti","tags":["bullying","degradation","dehumanization","feminism","gender-roles","hate","insults","men","misogyny","women"],"id":16779,"author_id":"Jessica+Valenti"},{"text":"Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.","author":"Peter Watts","tags":["dehumanization","murder","property damage"],"id":43432,"author_id":"Peter+Watts"},{"text":"But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity. This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.","author":"Laura Hillenbrand","tags":["captivity","complex-ptsd","dehumanization","dehumanize","held-captive","inhumane","no-longer-human","prisoners-of-war","self-respect","survivors-of-war","traumatic-experiences","traumatized","war","worthlessness"],"id":47774,"author_id":"Laura+Hillenbrand"},{"text":"For it was authority that turned men suspicious and stern-faced. Authority and responsibility which made them not themselves, but a sort of corporate body that tried to think as a corporate body rather than a person.","author":"Clifford D. Simak","tags":["ity","dehumanization"],"id":93924,"author_id":"Clifford+D.+Simak"},{"text":"Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.","author":"Audre Lorde","tags":["battle","conflict","dehumanization","endless","humanity","war"],"id":95816,"author_id":"Audre+Lorde"},{"text":"Dehumanization isn’t a way of talking. It’s a way of thinking—a way of thinking that, sadly, comes all too easily to us. Dehumanization is a scourge, and has been so for millennia. It acts as a psychological lubricant, dissolving our inhibitions and inflaming our destructive passions. As such, it empowers us to perform acts that would, under other circumstances, be unthinkable.","author":"David Livingstone Smith","tags":["dehumanization","future","human rights","humanity","science","sociology"],"id":144195,"author_id":"David+Livingstone+Smith"},{"text":"You are no longer human, with all those depths and highs and nuances of emotion that define you as a person.There is no feeling any more, because to feel any emotion would also be to beckon the overwhelming blackness from you. My mind has now locked all this down. And without any control of this self-defence mechanism my subconscious has operated. I do not feel any more.","author":"Jake Wood","tags":["combat-ptsd","dehumanization","dehumanized","dissociated","dissociation","dissociative","dissociative-ptsd","mental-health","military-ptsd","no-longer-human","traumatized"],"id":204056,"author_id":"Jake+Wood"},{"text":"People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don’t much care about how well it works, just about how right it is … they may even like it better if it inflicts enough pain.","author":"John Barnes","tags":["dehumanization","humanity","people","principles"],"id":221615,"author_id":"John+Barnes"},{"text":"Somewhat paradoxically, the more that Africans and their descendants assimilated cultural materials from colonial society, the less human they became in the minds of the colonists.","author":"Cedric J. Robinson","tags":["africa","colonialism","dehumanization","slavery"],"id":239208,"author_id":"Cedric+J.+Robinson"},{"text":"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 far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not to destroy what he is fighting to capture. Reasonable - that is, human - men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them the enemies of life.","author":"Alan W. Watts","tags":["dehumanization","ideologies","war"],"id":248720,"author_id":"Alan+W.+Watts"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}