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Quotes About Subjugation

My father liked his Indian talk about the Great Spirit," Ridgeway said. "All these years later, 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
a mighty iron that subjugated millions despite its weakness. The people she chose, young and old, from the rich part of town or the more modest streets, did not individually persecute Cora. As a community, they were shackles. If she kept at it, chipping away at weak links wherever she found them, it might add up to something.
~ Colson Whitehead
Women and animals, you only have to break them in once, he said. They stay broke. All
~ Colson Whitehead
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
You need to be strong to survive the labor and to make us greater. We fatten hogs, not because it pleases us but because we need hogs to survive. But we can't have you too clever. We can't have you so fit you outrun us." She
~ 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
~ Colson Whitehead
The Uncle Tom, the grinning nigger, the house nigger who is to blame for her debased place in this world. Pompey gave them a blueprint for colored folk. How they acted. How they pleased white folks. How eager they would be for a piece of the dream that they would do anything for massa.
~ Colson Whitehead
Hence the enormous importance to a patriarch who has to conquer, who has to rule, of feeling that great numbers of people, half the human race indeed, are by nature inferior to himself.
~ Virginia Woolf
They will let you have dope Because they are quite willing To drug you or kill you. They will let you have babies Because they are quite willing To pauperize you-- Or use your kids as labor boys For army, air force, or uranium mine. They will let you have alcohol To make you sodden and drunk And foolish. They will gleefully let you Kill your damn self any way you choose With liquor, drugs, or whatever.
~ Langston Hughes
Woman's desire is subjugated to her image (...) as bearer, not maker, of meaning.
~ Laura Mulvey
Some people, for all intents and purposes, are "dead", because the Alien Parasites have completely taken them over.
~ Laurence Galian
Much of this world vanished after Columbus, swept away by disease and subjugation. So thorough was the erasure that within a few generations neither conqueror nor conquered knew that this world had existed.
~ Charles C. Mann
The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned — would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.
~ Charles Dickens
Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend," observed the Marquis, "will keep the dogs obedient to the whip,
~ Charles Dickens
To name is to dominate, to categorize, to subjugate and, quite literally, to objectify
~ Charles Eisenstein
Os meninos eram uns brutos, como o pai. Quando crescessem, guardariam as reses de um patrão invisível, seriam pisados, maltratados, machucados por um soldado amarelo
~ Graciliano Ramos
Emma smiled thinly. "The pills say wake up, and we wake up. We won't ever fall asleep at the wrong time again. But it's like being an animal in a factory farm, pushed along between the rails, going wherever you want us to go.
~ Greg Egan
They grab you by the breasts, they pluck your derriere, they stuff you in a pot, they saute you with sperm, they grab you by the beak, they stick you in a house, they fatten you up on conjugal oil, they shut you up in your cage. And now, lay.
~ Helene Cixous
His wife was a little sharp-faced woman who bullied her husband when he was sober and was bullied by him when he was drunk.
~ James Joyce
We Sith are an unseen opposition, Tenebrous had told his young apprentice. A phantom menace. Where the Sith once wore armor, we now wear cloaks. But the Force works through us all the more powerfully in our invisibility. For the present, the more covert we remain, the more influence we can have. Our revenge will be achieved not through subjugation but by contagion.
~ James Luceno
Each person seeks mastery over a world of slaves.
~ James M. Buchanan
When Carl Monroe wants something from you, he'll talk you into submission if he has to. I had seen this before and now he started up with me again.
~ James Patterson
Women are here to serve men. Look at them, they got to squat to piss. Hell, that proves it.
~ Larry Flynt
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
~ Mary Ritter Beard