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Quotes About Subjugation

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.
~ Voltaire
Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.
~ Eric Hoffer
Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.
~ Marilyn French
Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.
~ Ernestine Rose
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
~ Ben Jonson
What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
In principle everyone, however powerful, is an object.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
The way to a tyrant's heart is through a doctorate
~ Theodore Dalrymple
The point is not how we use a tool, but how it uses us.
~ Nick Joaquín
Because I think we forget something about slavery: There was an enormous amount of sexual license. People talk about, well, the money; the economy; the this…But you realize if you own a human being, you really own them. You can get them—boys, girls—to do anything you say, on pain of death. That's what it means to own a human being.
~ Nikki Giovanni
jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.
~ Noam Chomsky
The need to humiliate those who raise their heads is an ineradicable element of the imperial mentality. In
~ Noam Chomsky
every form of authority and domination and hierarchy, every authoritarian structure, has to prove that it's justified—it has no prior justification
~ Noam Chomsky
When you conquer somebody and suppress them, you have to have a reason for it. You can't just say 'I'm a son of a bitch' and I wanted to rob them. So you have to say it's for their good or they deserve it or they actually benefit from it and we're helping them and so on.
~ Noam Chomsky
Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
No, whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she's always just some passive object to fulfill a man's purpose.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
People really need somebody they feel superior to. So stay downtrodden.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Ana babalar, kitlelerin uyuÅŸturucusudur!
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The Empire is just a skin we wear, you see. A shell. It's not just about law and order. It's about total control.
~ Chuck Wendig
my father liked his Indian talk about the Great Spirit, Ridgeway said. All these years late, I prefer the American spirit, the one that called us from the Old World to the New, to conquer and build and civilize. And destroy that what needs to be destroyed. To lift up the lesser races. If not lift up, subjugate. And if not subjugate, exterminate. One destiny by divine perscription--the American imperative.
~ Colson Whitehead
I prefer the American spirit, the one that called us from the Old World to the New, to conquer and build and civilize. And destroy that what needs to be destroyed. To lift up the lesser races. If not lift up, subjugate. And if not subjugate, exterminate. Our destiny by divine prescription – the American imperative.
~ Colson Whitehead
But we have all been branded even if you can't see it, inside if not without—and the wound from Randall's cane was the very same thing, marking her as his.
~ Colson Whitehead