Quotes About Subjugation

The first, and overarching, count in the new indictment is that slavery permitted one group of people to exercise unrestrained personal domination over another group of people.

The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.

Dari atas ke bawah yang ada adalah larangan, penindasan, perintah, semprotan, hinaan. Dari bawah ke atas yang ada adalah penjilatan, kepatuhan, dan perhambaan.

Teror merupakan sistem untuk menundukan rakyat, sedang kerakusan berlebihan menjadi tujuan dari pendudukan itu.

Wanita budak paling baik hanya untuk pria budak.

Put a rope around your neck and many will be happy to drag you along

Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

Growing up in the '70s, if you were a girl or woman, a man could tell you what to do - if you were sitting on the bus: 'Get up,' 'Move,' whatever. You did what you were told.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

He felt she was walking in a circle about him, turning him end for end, shaking him quietly, and emptying his pockets, without once moving herself. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

There is such magnificent vagueness in the expectations that had driven each of us to sea, such a glorious indefiniteness, such a beautiful greed of adventures that are their own and only reward! What we get—well, we won't talk of that; but can one of us restrain a smile? In no other kind of life is the illusion more wide of reality—in no other is the beginning all illusion—the disenchantment more swift—the subjugation more complete.

Both these white men looked on native life as a mere play of shadows. A play of shadows the dominant race could walk through unaffected and disregarded in the pursuit of its incomprehensible aims and needs.

tres etapas: engaño, obstrucción y desempoderamiento.

Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did.

trying to evade the people who frighten us. We come to work, have lunch, and go home. We goose-step in and goose-step out, changing our partner and wander all about, sashay around for a pat on the head, and promenade home till we all drop dead.

Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did.

Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of "slave morality.

When you see someone groveling before another man, or flattering him contrary to his own opinion, you can confidently say he is not free.

Should five slaves dictate to a king? If five baboons bark, must the black-maned lion tremble?

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

The fascist mentality is a mentality of the subjugated "little man" who craves authority and rebels against it at the same time

Índios' foram, na verdade, uma invenção dos colonizadores a fim de reduzi-los e escravizá-los. [...] Ao reduzi-los, dominaram; ao dominá-los, enfraqueceram valentes civilizações. Tudo isso contido em uma única palavra: índio.