If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of... everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp.... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We achieve "active" mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exi...ling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Freedom of choice for women, at the expense of the caring, warmth, and sensitivity to others so often associated with them, may be... empty. In the thrust to redefine male and female roles, women must not become men; nor can men be permitted the continual dehumanization of their roles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishne...ss.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doi...ng, in each individual life making itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. ...Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »