Quotes About Subjugation

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance.

To put it succinctly, in fashioning a Judaism that allowed Jews to survive centuries of subjugation, the rabbis also fashioned a Judaism that allowed Jews to thrive in the modern period.

Then there are people with modest but real power—and who take sick satisfaction from frustrating and pushing others around.

There's only two kinds of people in this world; enemies and tools" ? Joseph Stalin

We grasp one thing after another, and when we have grasped a thing, it is as if it possessed us. Not we possess it, but the opposite: whatever we have apparently acquired rules over us then. It is impressed upon us that a beneficent effect is to be had from acquiring a little that is firm and definite, that is to say, from growing accustomed and shaping oneself to laws and commands that prescribe a strict external discipline. Perhaps we're being stupefied, certainly we're being made small.

The slaves had been liberated, and turned into morons.

When the Communist Party took over Eastern Europe, its first work was to destroy the civil associations that it did not control.

Englishmen do love to bury one thing so completely in another that the two can only be separated by force: peanuts in candy, indigo in glass, Africans in irons.

Everybody wants power. Power in some form or other. [...] Some people want power to persecute other human beings; you expend your lust for power in persecuting words, twisting them, molding them, torturing them to obey you.

Un estado totalitario realmente eficaz sería aquel en el cual los jefes políticos todopoderosos y su ejército de colaboradores pudieran gobernar una población de esclavos sobre los cuales no fuese necesario ejercer coerción alguna por cuanto amarían su servidumbre. Inducirles a amarla es la tarea asignada en los actuales estados totalitarios a los ministerios de propaganda, los directores de los periódicos y los maestros de escuela.

the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase. In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.

Um Estado totalitário verdadeiramente eficiente seria aquele em que os chefes políticos de um Poder Executivo todo-poderoso e seu exército de administradores controlassem uma população de escravos que não tivessem de ser coagidos porque amariam sua servidão. Fazer com que eles a amem é a tarefa confiada, nos Estados totalitários de hoje, aos ministérios de propaganda, diretores de jornais e professores.

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude

He thought that it was impossible for a massa to perceive that being owned by anyone could never be enjoyable.

Blaming Black mothers, then, is a way of subjugating the Black race as a whole. At the same time, devaluing motherhood is particularly damaging to Black women.

Those who are by nature possessions are those who have a lesser capacity for reason; these people "are by nature slaves," Aristotle wrote, "and it is better for them as for all inferiors that they should be under the rule of a master."40

Anyone can rejigger an atom bomb," said Hopkins. "But to possess the minds of millions? To make them your willing zombies across a whole decade? That's real magic.

THE FOUNDATIONAL BELIEF OF THE RULING ELITE IS THAT THEY were born to rule, while the vast majority of the populace is born to slavery, in one form or another. They

Let us consider historically how human populations have been controlled. Throughout the ages, there have been two predominant methods for controlling humankind—religion and finance.

The law gives a husband ownership of his wife. I value my judgment too dearly to sacrifice it to another's. And there's no escape—the contract binds until death. A married woman is little better than a slave.

the power men everywhere wield over women . . . has become a model for every other form of exploitation and illegal control' [Adrienne Rich]

They didn't just want to oppress us: they wanted us to thank them for it."81