Quotes About Domination

You need a new hobby, Rachel. Something other than nasty little men with visions of world domination.

Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.

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

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

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

In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our nature.

The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.

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

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

Oppression is the essence of power.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

Whoever is lord of Malacca has his hand on the throat of Venice.—Tomé

What matters is that Southern slaves, at least on the larger plantations, created their own African American culture, which helped to preserve some of the more crucial areas of life and thought from white control or domination without significantly reducing the productivity and profitability of slave labor. Living within this African American culture, sustained by strong community ties, many slaves were able to maintain a certain sense of apartness, of pride, and of independent identity.

Modern states are simply one way in which the three principles of domination happened to come together, but this time with a notion that the power of kings is held by an entity called 'the people' (or 'the nation'), that bureaucracies exist for the benefit of said 'people', and in which a variation on old, aristocratic contests and prizes has come to be relabelled as 'democracy', most often in the form of national elections.

If it is possible to have monarchs, aristocracies, slavery and extreme forms of patriarchal domination, even without a state (as it evidently was); and if it's equally possible to maintain complex irrigation systems, or develop science and abstract philosophy without a state (as it also appears to be), then what do we actually learn about human history by establishing that one political entity is what we would like to describe as a 'state' and another isn't?

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.

In weeks or months, the rest of eastern Europe will become Soviet puppets as well. Tens of millions of people are to be subjugated to the communist will, against their own.

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.