Quotes About Subjugation

When military men take over, honest men dance to the strings they pull. Your life is no longer your own.

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

I created you. Hence I have the right to do what I will with you. You have done me no harm, I admit. I make you suffer for my own pleasure.

Why do you hurt me? What more do you want?" she asked, tears shining in her eyes. "Power over you, little one," he said, smiling. "What does any man want but that? It is something in the blood of every one of us. We would all be a tyrant if we could.

pride had allowed her to meet unbowed the news of MacFarlane's death and her renewed subjugation to Carr. Pride had kept her from giving up and yielding to her father's machinations.

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.

It's been my experience that mankind—and I use that to encompass all the races—is seldom satisfied with what they have. Most people's striving is harmless, beneficial even. But there are those who strive for subjugation, having control over others' lives, lives held in the palm of their hand.

Colonies were a pearl choker adorning the alabaster-white neck of the colonizer

Like Shakespeare's shrew, she should have been beaten every day by her husband,

There are some people who want to feel power over other people. I guess it makes them feel better about themselves if they have someone to look down upon.

A slave that understands his position and struggles against is a revolutionary. A slave that doesn't understand that he is enslaved and vegetates in silent, unconscious and speechless life, is just a slave. A slave that salivates when complacently describing delights of slave life and that is enraptured by good and kind master is a cad, a serf.

This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-dominant force sufficient to crush him at once.

Then, I said, no science or art considers or enjoins the interest of the stronger or superior, but only the interest of the subject and weaker?

Rich men don't look at people like us as human beings; we're pieces they move, levers they pull to get what they want.

How readily the rules of female behavior—gentleness, acquiescence, ever-mindfulness—turned to shackles.

When you look ito the still, deep water, you can feel it looking back, trying to come up with the proper punishment. Fucking water, who made you the boss?

El pueblo, eterno esclavo de los tiranos que lo oprimen, de los bribones que lo engañan y de los bufones que lo divierten.

If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.

So, in bigger-picture Machiavellian scheme of things, it transpires that the mind must be disposed of, with special emphasis on its detecting components. There are two traditional methods for achieve something like this – to keep people, in general, as stupid and illiterate as possible, and, if that doesn't work, to keep their minds fixated on the objective

In this respect, the concept of "the people" is converted into, say, slaves, workers, wage earners, lesser functional officials, etc., and, as well, breeders of millions of disposable and replaceable "soldiers" who fight and die in whatever wars are designated by their higher-ups.

The gentry's jurisdiction over the peasantry was restored. The universities were closed to the children of the lower classes; the radical literary periodicals were banned; the nation, including the intelligentsia, was to be forced back into mute submission. Revolutionary

Institutions that embody moral beauty—universities, museums, cathedrals, courthouses, monuments, the criminal justice system—can inspire awe in those who live lives of privilege. For those who've been subjugated by such institutions, the feeling is often much closer to threat-based awe and its bodily expressions, shudders and cold shivers.

All men would be tyrants if they could.