Quotes About Subjugation

L'uomo è un animale addomesticato che per secoli ha comandato sugli altri animali con la frode, la violenza e la crudeltà

The slave is always a tyrant, if he can get a chance to be one.

God forbid the wife should have prior knowledge of sex, let alone enjoy it.

Englishmen do love to bury one thing so completely in another that the two can only be separated by force: peanuts in candy, indigo in glass, Africans in irons. Standing

You learn how to coerce people to do your bidding . . . willingly.

power aims to produce subjects defined (and, correlatively, made visible and controlled) by particular desires.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

He ended his description of them with these menacing words: "I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men and govern them as I pleased.

What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

Women in India experience much worse suffering, humiliation and slavery in all spheres than even the untouchables.

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

Beat and cuff the slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog," but "give him a good master, and he wishes to become his own master."1

Rather than asserting an essence of femininity that society must value and protect, Beauvoir's move here is the opposite: she wants to demolish feminine identity in order to assert women's participation in universality. Identity is an obstacle to overcome rather than a foundation from which to base one's politics. Clinging to a particular identity cannot possibly be the source of emancipation since it clearly functions as the driving force for female subjugation.

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

O amor pertence a outro reino. Não o podemos fabricar a pedido. Nem o podemos subjugar quando aparece. O amor não é uma escolha nossa.

Only slaves love being powerful. HANS ERICH NOSSACK

There is no natural order. Only rules that one race invents to make the other serve its uses.

The rod of iron with which he rules her never appears in company--it is a private rod, and is always kept upstairs.

No man under heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace—they drag us away from our parents' love and our sisters' friendship—they take us body and soul to themselves, and fasten our helpless lives to theirs as they chain up a dog to his kennel. And what does the best of them give us in return?

Both Stoicism and Epicureanism—. the apathetic acceptance of defeat, and the effort to forget defeat in the arms of pleasure—were theories as to how one might yet be happy though subjugated or enslaved;

Man is woman's last domestic animal

Woman is to man as the slave to the master, the manual to the mental worker, the barbarian to the Greek. Woman is an unfinished man, left standing on a lower step in the scale of development.

Political society has made the many the property of the few.