Quotes About Subjugation

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

Há, portanto, uma causa para a transposição imaginária das condições de existência reais; essa causa é a existência de um pequeno grupo de homens cínicos que assentam sua dominação e sua exploração do "povo" sobre uma representação falseada do mundo, imaginada por eles para subjugar os espíritos pela dominação de sua imaginação.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

Sure the priests ran the country back then and they hated women. Oh my God, they hated women and anything that had to do with women and anything to do with women's bodies or ideas or desires, and any chance that they had to humiliate a woman or bring her down, they would take full advantage of it.

The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

My father always said that false love is an attempt to force another person to be subjugated to your own illusion, to make that person nothing but a part of you that you can direct and control. But real love means the other person's illusion is more important than yours. You put them first. Like you put me first.

In short, the abusive mentality is the mentality of oppression.

Oppressive systems stay in existence because the people in power enjoy the luxury of their position and become unwilling to give up the privileges they win through taking advantage of other people and keeping them down. In short, the abusive mentality is the mentality of oppression.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

I think that it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth. The rejoicing is forced, created under threat. . . . It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, 'Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing,' and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, 'Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.' . . . You have to be a complete oaf not to hear that.

Marx's dream of a workers' paradise had degenerated into an Orwellian nightmare; conformity was the highest good, informants kept watch on every block, whole countries lived behind barbed wire, and governments insisted that down was up and black was white.

Designating "(Fill in the blank) First" as the golden rule of international relations provides an all-purpose justification for tyrants to do as they like.

Identification is domination.

This was how the Empire would conquer and rule, he thought: through might and fear. The

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

Seperti juga bagi orang-orang pribumi lain, bagi Salim itu pun logika yang tidak bisa diusik-usik. Bila kita kuli kontrak, kita pun kehilangan semua kemanusiaan dan hak kita. Kita harus selalu melakukan apa yang diperintahkan oleh seorang tuan administratur untuk melakukannya, dan karena itu akan sangat ganjillah bila kita harus sakit karena satu pon daging busuk

In his scheme, Mercia would not simply dominate neighbouring kingdoms; it would annex them,

Offa had demoted them to the rank of provincial governors.

Tyrants tyrannize no doubt thanks to a host of little tyrants, who are tyrannized and no doubt tyrannize in turn.

We try to discover in things, endeared to us on that account, the spiritual glamour which we ourselves have cast upon them; we are disillusioned, and learn that they are in themselves barren and devoid of the charm which they owed, in our minds, to the association of certain ideas; sometimes we mobilise all our spiritual forces in a glittering array so as to influence and subjugate other human beings who, as we very well know, are situated outside ourselves, where we can never reach them.