Quotes About Subjugation

Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.

I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.

The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.

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

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Propaganda is what gives us the freedom to do as we are told.

The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.

No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.

The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

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

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Oppression is the essence of power.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.

Mongols were uneducated tribesmen who believed in enjoying life's simpler pleasures. Ghengis Khan expressed their philosophy most succinctly. 'Happiness,' he is recorded to have said, 'lies in conquering one's enemies, driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savouring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

In many ways the East India Company was a model of commercial efficiency: one hundred years into its history, it had only thirty-five permanent employees in its head office. Nevertheless, that skeleton staff executed a corporate coup unparalleled in history: the military conquest, subjugation and plunder of vast tracts of southern Asia.