Quotes About Subjugation

Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.

rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.

Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

I know all about the tyranny of women.

To be "out of touch" with a society in which women have internalized their subjugation is an admirable thing.

Religion- made by men to rule women, children and idiots!

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.

A system more ingeniously contrived, first for the debasement, and then for the continuance in that debasement, of an entire people cannot easily be imagined.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

N]othing whole, nothing definitive or lasting can be accomplished in our country as long as a crucial part of ourselves is kept in this condition of subjugation—a condition imposed over the course of centuries by various systems of exploitation.

Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the point in having a self? It's like someone handing you a leaflet which says throw this leaflet away.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Gulliver was a giant whom the dwarfs captured while he was napping by binding him with tiny threads. Each thread was a trifle which he could easily have snapped by itself. But he didn't wake, and the dwarfs wound the thread around him in such number that at last he found himself a prisoner.

You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer. Until you get a soldier who can do more than anyone else. You can't have that. It spoils the symmetry. You must get him in line, break him down, isolate him, beat him until he gets in line with everyone else.

Irony is the glory of slaves.

Each period is dominated by a mood, with the result that most men fail to see the tyrant who rules over them.

A job in a factory is an awful lot like working on a plantation in the South. The bosses see all the workers like they're children, and everyone knows how lazy children are.

The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

dominant groups tend to entrench their hegemony by inculcating an image of inferiority in the subjugated.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.