Quotes About Subjugation

Everybody is owned by somebody.

He's dominant, lass. We've all known people who can make you do things for them and go on doing things until you become ill.

Authoritarianism—the familial, social, and political obsession with order, control, and obedience—is rooted in violence and coercion.

Colonization" exists when the colonized has valuable natural resources that are used to enrich the colonizer, but not the colonized: when the colonized does the colonizer's work, but earns little of the colonizer's money; when the colonized try to imitate or please the colonizer, and truly believe that the colonizer is, by nature, superior/inferior, and that the colonized cannot exist without her colonizer.

Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

In a wasteland the surface does not represent the actuality of what it is supposed to be representing, and people are living inauthentic lives. "I've never done a thing I wanted to in all my life. I've done as I was told." You know?

Do not imagine that there is any bird more easily caught by decoy, nor any fish sooner fixed on the hook by wormy bait, than are all of these poor fools neatly tricked into servitude by the slightest feather passed before their mouths.

Somos subjugados porque concordamos e entregamos nossa liberdade por uso do nosso livre-arbítrio. Não se trata de natureza, não é sina ou destino, mas a vontade dos homens de se curvarem diante do poder. A servidão é escolha, e, naturalmente, escolha voluntária.

Yet, in the light of reason, it is a great misfortune to be at the beck and call of one master, for it is impossible to be sure that he is going to be kind, since it is always in his power to be cruel whenever he pleases.

Mais, à parler à bon escient, c'est un extrême malheur d'être sujet à un maître, duquel on ne se peut jamais assurer qu'il soit bon, puisqu'il est toujours en sa puissance d'être mauvais quand il voudra ; et d'avoir plusieurs maîtres, c'est, autant qu'on en a, autant de fois être extrêmement malheureux.

Les théâtres, les jeux, les farces, les spectacles, les gladiateurs, les bêtes étranges, les médailles, les tableaux et autres telles drogueries, c'étaient aux peuples anciens les appâts de la servitude, le prix de leur liberté, les outils de la tyrannie.

é um extremo infortúnio estar-se sujeito a um senhor, o qual nunca se pode se certificar de que seja bom, pois sempre está em seu poderio ser mau quando quiser; e em ter vários senhores, quantos se tiver quantas vezes se é extremamente infeliz.

siempre es una fatalidad tener que estar sujeto a un dueño, cuya bondad no ofrece más garantías que su capricho: y el depender de muchos es tener que sobrellevar otras tantas desgracias.

The fools did not realize that they were merely recovering a portion of their own property, and that their ruler could not have given them what they were receiving without having first taken it from them.

Yet she belongs, finally and truly, only to God. The hijab is a symbol of freedom from the male regard, but also, in our time, of freedom from subjugation by the iron fist of materialism, deterministic science, and the death of meaning. It denotes softness, otherness, inwardness. She is not only caught in a world of power relations, but she inhabits a world of love and sacrifice. This freedom, which is of the conscience, is hers to exercise as she will.

And so the bulk of chicotte blows were inflicted by Africans on the bodies of other Africans. This, for the conquerors, served a further purpose. It created a class of foremen from among the conquered, like the kapos in the Nazi concentration camps and the predurki, or trusties, in the Soviet gulag. Just as terrorizing people is part of conquest, so is forcing someone else to administer the terror

Just as terrorizing people is part of conquest, so is forcing someone else to administer the terror.*

What luck for the rulers that men do not think

Toplum ancak kuvvetli ÅŸeyler kar??s?nda eÄŸilebilir. Nas?l kad?nlar zay?flara bask? yapt??? halde, kuvvetli olan?n kar??s?nda diz çökerlerse; topluluk da otoriteyi, zay?fa tercih eder.

La psicologia della massa non è adatta alle mezze verità. Come la dona, così anche la massa cede al padrone piuttosto che al supplice

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.