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Quotes About Domination

Apologists for state violence understand very well that the general public has no real stake in imperial conquest and domination. The public costs of empire may run high, whatever the gains to dominant social and economic groups. Therefore the public must be aroused by jingoist appeals, or at least kept disciplined and submissive, if American force is to be readily available for global management.
~ Noam Chomsky
Every planet will take on the corporate identity of whoever rapes it first.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Let him be fifty feet away, let him not even speak to you, let him not even see you, he permeated, he prevailed, he imposed himself. He changed everything.
~ Virginia Woolf
Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.
~ Latin proverb
Some people, for all intents and purposes, are "dead", because the Alien Parasites have completely taken them over.
~ Laurence Galian
Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.
~ Charlaine Harris
Our morality seems to me only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The crowd state and the domination of crowds is equivalent to the barbarian state, or to a return to it.
~ Gustave Le Bon
We were always loyal to lost causes, the professor said. Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. We were never loyal to the successful. We serve them. I teach the blatant Latin language. I speak the tongue of a race the acme of whose mentality is the maxim: time is money. Material domination.
~ James Joyce
What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.
~ Julie Carmen
...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.
~ Riane Eisler
Like so many others, I came to romance during the golden age of it - Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, Johanna Lindsey and Jude Deveraux were at the height of their historical domination. Without those women, I wouldn't be a romance novelist.
~ Sarah MacLean
War gets invented every time there's somebody so hungry for domination that he can't leave peaceful nations alone.
~ Orson Scott Card
Power. Like wine when you have it. Like poison when you lose it.
~ Cornelia Funke
There is no such thing as liberty,' she heard the quiet, deep, dangerous voice of Don Ramón repeating. 'There is no such thing as liberty. The greatest liberators are usually slaves of an idea. The freest people are slaves to convention and public opinion, and more still, slaves to the industrial machine. There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
~ D.H. Lawrence
There is no such thing as liberty. The greatest liberators are usually slaves of an idea. The freest people are slaves to convention and public opinion, and more still, slaves to the industrial machine. There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
~ D.H. Lawrence
War, murder, slavery, extermination, and debauchery,—this has again and again been the result of carrying civilization and the blessed gospel to the isles of the sea and the heathen without the law. Nor
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
When he finally settled down for the interview, he said that even the advent of the web would do little to stop Microsoft's domination. "Windows has won," he said. "It beat the Mac, unfortunately, it beat UNIX, it beat OS/2. An inferior product won.
~ Walter Isaacson
When citizens of Europe own the land and the mines of Africa, this is the most direct way of sucking the African continent. Under colonialism, the ownership was complete and backed by military domination.
~ Walter Rodney
L'uomo è un animale addomesticato che per secoli ha comandato sugli altri animali con la frode, la violenza e la crudeltà
~ Charlie Chaplin
The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man.
~ Hannah Arendt
The road to totalitarian domination leads through many intermediate stages for which we can find numerous analogies and precedents.
~ Hannah Arendt
Hubbard mentions an organization he calls SMERSH, a name taken from James Bond novels. Hubbard describes it as a "hidden government …that aspired to world domination!" Psychiatry is the dominating force behind this sinister institution.
~ Lawrence Wright
If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?
~ lenin vladimir