Quotes About Subjugation

Ce sont eux [les hommes] qui ont toujours tenu le sort de la femme entre leurs mains; et ils n'en ont pas décidé en fonction de son intérêt; c'est à leurs propres projets, à leurs craintes, à leurs besoins qu'il-ont eu régard.

L'homme a réussi à asservir la femme : mais dans cette mesure il l'a dépouillée de ce qui en rendait la possession désirable.

U lepo obu?enoj i iski?enoj ženi priroda je prisutna, ali je zarobljena, modelirana ljudskom voljom po želji muškarca. Žena je utoliko privla?nija ukoliko je njena priroda bujnija i u njoj pot?injenija - to je žena sofisti?ke opsene koja je uvek bila idealni erotski objekat.

Muži sú tyrani... Zaobchádzajú s nami ako s hra?kami... robia si z nás prá?ky a kuchárky.

Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

The yoke is naturally and necessarily humiliating to all persons, except the one who is on the throne, together with, at most, the one who expects to succeed to it.

But was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?... the law of force itself, to those who could not plead any other, has always seemed the most natural of all grounds for the exercise of authority.

State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished;

She sits like a spider and pulls strings like a puppet master. She watches over all her creatures, and she owns the two of you as surely as she owns me. She has tampered with us for her own purposes.

We are merely the star's tennis balls, struck and banded Which way please them.

Perdoa-se tudo, contanto que você tenha uma profissão, um subtítulo sob seu nome, um selo sobre seu nada. Ninguém tem a audácia de gritar: "Não quero fazer nada!"; se é mais indulgente com um assassino do que com um espírito liberado dos atos. Multiplicando as possibilidades de submeter-se, abdicando de sua liberdade, matando em si mesmo o vagabundo, foi assim que o homem refinou sua escravidão e submeteu-se aos fantasmas.

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they do not turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

The State is nothing but this domination and this exploitation, well regulated and systematized.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Bismarck has broken the nation's backbone," he wrote in 1886. "The injury done by the Bismarck era is infinitely greater than its benefits.… The subjugation of the German personality, of the German mind, was a misfortune that cannot be undone.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

There are a lot of challenges Ofglen faces as a Handmaid. She has to live her life for the Commander of her home, Glen, and it is really a bleak life. She has no rights, and her main job is to keep him and the rest of the people in his house happy.

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

From a man's rule of himself in smallest opposition, however devout, to the law of his being, arises the huge danger of nourishing, by the pride of self-conquest, a far worse than even the unchained animal self—the demoniac self. True victory over self is the victory of God in the man, not of the man alone. It is not subjugation that is enough, but subjugation by God. In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably—or succeed more miserably.

Until they become conscious, they will never rebel

There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.