Quotes About Subjugation

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

She was the subject creature, and versed in the arts of the enslaved.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free: if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Racism... is the highest expression of the colonial system and one of the most significant features of the colonialist.

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

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

Men from the mountaintops will always come down to the molehill to conquer it. That will always be the vice of the conquerors.

In Western Catholicism, darkness was evil. In the colonial and imperial context, dark skin was always weak, powerless, subjugated. If you see these images all the time, they become commonplace, and they no longer become a spectacular or sensational thing.

Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

Ah, but it was your great-grandmother who went around subjugating half the world. Empress of all I survey, and all that. You must have that quality somewhere in your makeup." "I've never had a change to subjugate anybody yet, so I can't really say," I confessed.

What was invented with civilization was the ability of some to deny sensuality to others.

lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

A woman's life was a house of closed doors: she could not be an apprentice, she could not study at the university, she could not be a priest or a physician, or shoot a bow or fight with a sword, and she could not marry without submitting herself to the tyranny of her husband.

No. No, listen. They don't bust you that way; they work on you ways you can't fight! They put things in! They install things. They start as quick as they see you're gonna be big and go to working and installing their filthy machinery when you're little, and keep on and on and on till you're fixed!

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.

What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.