Quotes About Subjugation

But you must remember that arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken; and, notwithstanding all your wise laws and maxims, we have it in our power, not only to free ourselves, but to subdue our masters, and, without violence, throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet;—

En aquest seu afany de poder, en necessitaven d'altres sobre qui exercir aquest poder, i aquests altres som nosaltres.

because in their quest for power, they needed to have those they'd have power over, and those people are us. And they have taught this lesson of power to the boys and men of Molotschna, and the boys and men of Molotschna have been excellent students in that regard.

L'autoritat fa que les persones siguin cruels.

You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to property. Ergo, the very poor have the right to steal from the very rich. Indeed, I would go so far as to say the the poor have a duty to do so, for history has shown that the inaction of the working classes perpetuates their subjugation.

We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves. —George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Las personas eran como los títeres o los juguetes de cuerda, tenían todas un resorte oculto que permitía mover sus hilos y hacerlas correr en la dirección que uno deseaba.

The main pillar of organized religion, with few exceptions, is the subjugation, repression, even the annulment of women in the group. Woman must accept the role of an ethereal, passive, and maternal presence, never of authority or independence, or she will have to suffer the consequences. She might have a place of honor in the symbolism, but not in the hierarchy. Religion and war are male pursuits. And anyhow, woman sometimes ends up becoming the accomplice in her own subjugation.

The main pillar of every organised religion, with few exceptions, is the subjugation, repression, even the annulment of women in the group.

Under coverture, a wife was required to live where her husband demanded, her earnings belonged to her husband and her children were the property of her husband, just as the children of the female slave belonged to her master. But perhaps the most graphic illustration of the continuity between slavery and marriage was that in England – as Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge reminds us – wives could be sold at public auctions.

I didn't mind going to any length to make people believe that a puny hero had me at his mercy.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

The fact is, said d'Uberville drily, whatever your dear husband believed you accept, and whatever he rejected you reject, without the least inquiry or reasoning on your own part. That's just like you women. Your mind is enslaved to his.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading subjugation on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it: for man is an imitative animal.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance.

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US

Forced labor was one of the most widespread and most deeply resented of the chronic abuses to which conquered Africans were subjected.

And Colton used her, treated her like a muddy little dog.

It's not about danger, it's about control. Keep people scared and stupid and you can make them do anything you want.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

El peligro está en que una vez esa idea ha sido plantada en tu mente, te conviertes en su esclavo.

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

The varieties of skullduggery which make up the repertoire of the totalitarian government are just about as unlimited as human ingenuity itself, and just about as unpleasant. For, as you know, no holds are barred. There are no rules of the game. They can do anything that they think is in their interests.

George Weston, after all was only a man—poor thing—and his wife made full use of every device which a clumsier and more scrupulous sex has learned, with reason and futility, to fear.