Quotes About Subjugation

The truth of Voltaire's observation offers itself perpetually," he told Bellini, that every man in Europe "must be either the hammer or the anvil.

power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us.

Un esclavo es aquel que no puede expresar su pensamiento.

Whoever is in charge of the artist will always have the upper hand. They act like it's the artists' world, but it's the other way around, so they're going to do whatever they want to do.

Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

Remember that our Spanish conquerors, for their own benefit, deliberately created an oppressed underclass whose collective psyche became rooted in passivity and underachievement.

When expressions of emotion are dangerous, and when you are constantly told that this terrible thing is being done for your own good, you quickly learn to hide your true feelings, even from yourself.

Much as we resent that, it was natural that once they had achieved a military technology that was superior to our own, they would take what they wished from us.

Give a low man one ounce of power and he'll throw ten thousand pounds of bricks on your head.

Each in its own way, the five major belief systems of Judaism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity and Islam by their nature insisted on the inferiority of women and demanded their subjection to values and imperatives devised to promote the supremacy of men.

Under patriarchal monotheism, womanhood was a life sentence of second-order existence.

Scalp hunting was not only a profitable privatized enterprise but also a means to eradicate or subjugate the Indigenous population of the Anglo-American Atlantic seaboard.26 The settlers gave a name to the mutilated and bloody corpses they left in the wake of scalp-hunts: redskins.

You are a king, she whispered from behind her veils, but you are also a man. Men burn but women smolder; always we are the stronger, and your subjugation of us is an illusion.

The great are eternally at the mercy of tiny men. And also, tiny madwomen.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

the European is to the other races of mankind, what man is to the lower animals;—he makes them subservient to his use; and when he cannot subdue, he destroys them.

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

This, then, was the power people like us had. The power to enslave others and to frustrate their dreams.

The men had decided they would be creator, and they went about dethroning woman systematically. To sell women and children for whom you no longer wished to assume responsibility or to sell those who were mentally infirm or who had in some way offended you, became a new tradition, an accepted way of life. As did the idea, later on, under the Mohametans, that a man could own many women, as he owned many cattle or hunting dogs.

Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers!

PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.

In a way the better the master;the worse the condition of slave,because it makes him forget what he is.

Carol says we speak with one voice. What she doesn't say is that voice belongs to HER. There's only one song to sing these days--Carol's song--and if you aren't in harmony, you can stick a stone in your mouth and shut the hell up.