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Quotes About Subjugation

Critical theory upends the universal values of the Enlightenment: objectivity, rationality, science, equality and freedom of the individual. These liberal values are an ideology by which dominant groups subjugate other groups. All relations are power relations, everything is political, and claims of reason and truth are social constructs that maintain those in power.
~ George Packer
It's by the king's decree," the man said. "The strong have always taken from the weak,
~ George R.R. Martin
Aegon had made the seven kingdoms one with fire and blood.
~ George R.R. Martin
The man who is not permitted to own is owned.
~ George Santayana
Men have become the tools of their tools.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Kaže se, raja se odmetnula, raja je neposlušna i nevaljala. Jeste. Ali treba znati da raja ne diše svojom dušom, nego sluša dah gospodara. To vi dobro znate. Uvijek se gospoda prvo iskvare, a raja samo prihvati. A kad se jednom raja otme i pohasi, idi slobodno pa traži drugu, jer od te nema više ništa.
~ Ivo Andri?
teški su zli gospodari, ali su još teže njihove nasilne i drske sluge i ?ankolizi.
~ Ivo Andri?
There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
~ Nikki Giovanni
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
~ Emily Bronte
It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.
~ Voltaire
Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.
~ Patrick Henry
Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.
~ Virgil
It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.
~ William H. Seward
All people are enslaved by something.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If you are rich, it doesn't matter whether you are Hindu or Muslim, that is how a capitalist society works. Take a look, poverty-stricken Muslims are in a similar situation. The rich, be they Hindu or Muslim, are subjugating the poor.
~ Taslima Nasrin
Has not the country become independent? Be sure, though, that they will direct our affairs from afar. This is because they have left behind them people who think as they do.
~ Tayeb Salih
Men are no different from your automata; slip a bloke a piece of paper with the proper figures on it, and he'll do your bidding." The room grew light as the man lit an oil lamp.
~ Ted Chiang
The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has.
~ Genghis Khan
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
~ Vladimir Lenin
A 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.
~ John Stuart Mill
The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor.
~ Frantz Fanon
I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.
~ Adolf Hitler
The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.
~ Karl Marx