Quotes About Subjugation

For the British after 1857, the Indian Muslim became an almost subhuman creature, to be classified in unembarrassedly racist imperial literature alongside such other despised and subject specimens, such as Irish Catholics or 'the Wandering Jew'.

I already knew, in rough outline, what had happened to the Hawaiians—how American missionaries and other haoles had subjugated them, stolen their lands, killed them en masse with diseases, and converted the survivors to Christianity. I felt no responsibility for this cruel dispossession, no liberal guilt, but I knew enough to keep my junior atheist's mouth shut.

In Nazi parlance, "educated" meant "intimidated"—to a point where all would accept docilely the Nazi dictatorship and its barbarism.

the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people.

Humanity increased its degree of control over nature, but at the price of most people becoming subject to control and exploitation by privileged minority groups.

The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.

subjugating opponents, what the Romans termed Vae victis (Woe to the conquered).

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

Our exchanges always seem to turn into whatever he wants them to.

The domination–exploitation of human beings begins with animals, wild beasts and cattle; the humans associated with these inaugurated an experience that would turn back against them: killings, stockbreeding, slaughters, sacrifices and (in order better to submit) castration.

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

ofrecerles elevados edificios, graneros y esclavos para enviciar sus barrigas […] y, para los que iban a rendirse, el emperador [debería] favorecerlos haciéndoles los honores con una recepción imperial en la que el propio emperador les sirviera vino y comida para enviciar su mente. Estos son los que podrían denominarse los cinco cebos.27

A commercial company enslaved a nation comprising two hundred millions. Tell this to a man free from superstition and he will fail to grasp what these words mean. What does it mean that thirty thousand men, not athletes but rather weak and ordinary people, have subdued two hundred million vigorous, clever, capable, and freedom-loving people?

What does it mean that thirty thousand men, not athletes but rather weak and ordinary people, have subdued two hundred million vigorous, clever, capable, and freedom-loving people? Do not the figures make it clear that it is not the English who have enslaved the Indians, but the Indians who have enslaved themselves?

A commercial company enslaved a nation comprising two hundred millions. Tell this to a man free from superstition and he will fail to grasp what these words mean. What does it mean that thirty thousand people, not athletes, but rather weak and ordinary people, have enslaved two hundred millions of vigorous, clever, capable, freedom-loving people? Do not the figures make it clear that not the English, but the Indians, have enslaved themselves?

That woman, as nature has created her and as man is at present educating her, is his enemy. She can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion . This she can become only when she has the same rights as he, and is his equal in education and wor.

It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure.

Dr. Carter G. Woodson who said: "If you can determine what a man shall think, you will never have to concern yourself with what he will do. If you can make a man feel inferior, you will never have to compel him to seek an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you can make a man feel justly an outcast, you will never have to order him to the back door. He will go there himself, and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one!

We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.

But instead of freeing labor, the royal mega-machine boasted of imprisoning and enslaving it.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they are. -

Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

El mismo que se considera señor de los demás no por esto deja de ser menos esclavo que los demás.