History Quotes / Dehumanization

->“So, you were saying those were Jioral soldiers trying to pillage and enslave the elves and demi-humans?” Kureha inquired as she returned with the four of us to the bar.\\
I sighed, “For the third time, yes.”\\
“I apologize. I didn’t know you were speaking the truth until I heard it from Lady Kari,” Kureha said. “But it doesn’t make sense. The Knights of Jioral are sworn to protect the people of the kingdom.”\\
“Quite a few of them don’t think of everyone as ‘people’,” Hachi retorted.

->''"When you spend every day fighting a war, you learn to demonize your attackers. To you, they're evil, they're sub-human. Because if they weren't, then what would that make you?"''
-->-- '''Vanessa Kimball''', ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue''

->'''Hector Snipe:''' Critics make mistakes, Lionheart. We're only human.\\
'''Edward Lionheart:''' An opinion I find myself incapable of sharing.
-->-- ''Film/TheatreOfBlood''

->'''Granny Weatherwax:''' Sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That's what sin is.\\
'''Mightily Oats:''' It's a lot more complicated than that--\\
'''Granny Weatherwax:''' No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts.\\
'''Mightily Oats:''' Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes--\\
'''Granny Weatherwax:''' But they ''start'' with thinking about people as things.
-->-- ''Literature/CarpeJugulum''

->''"You're just meat. Without a soul, without a brain, without anything. Animal. You, you have no spirit everlasting! No, no radiant light! I possess elucidations you will never know!"''
-->-- '''Jeremiah Sand''' to '''Red Miller''', ''Film/Mandy2018''

->''"Your side is human only by genetics."''
-->-- '''[[https://fstdt.com/P5.7MCPYY8JWG#111897 AlpacaLynn]]''', ''Fundies Say the Darndest Things''

-->-- '''Vanessa Kimball''', ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''

'''Granny Weatherwax:''' But they START with thinking about people as things.

-->--'''[=AlpacaLynn=]''', [[https://fstdt.com/P5.7MCPYY8JWG#111897 Fundies Say the Darndest Things]]

->''"When you spend everyday fighting a war, you learn to demonize your attackers. To you, they're evil, they're sub-human. Because if they weren't, then what would that make you?"''

-->--''Film/TheatreOfBlood''

->''"You're just meat. Without a soul, without a brain, without anything. Animal. You, you have no spirit- everlasting! No, no radiant light! I possess elucidations you will never know!"''

-->-- ''Music/{{Lovejoy}}'', "The Fall"

-->-- '''Music/{{Lovejoy}}''', "The Fall"

->"When you spend everyday fighting a war, you learn to demonize your attackers. To you, they're evil, they're sub-human. Because if they weren't, then what would that make you?"
--> '''Vanessa Kimball''', ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''

->Violence against your fellow man takes much less of a toll on the psyche when you make them look like monsters first.

->'''Hector Snipe''': Critics make mistakes, Lionheart. We're only human.\\
'''Edward Lionheart''': An opinion I find myself incapable of sharing.

-->--'''Jeremiah Sand''' to '''Red Miller''', ''Film/Mandy2018''

-->-- '''Dehumanize magic''', ''VideoGame/DawnOfTheDragons''

-> "When you spend everyday fighting a war, you learn to demonize your attackers. To you, they're evil, they're sub-human. Because if they weren't, then what would that make you?"
--> '''Vanessa Kimball''', ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''