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Quotes About Domination

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.
~ Noam Chomsky
It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.
~ Richard Stallman
Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.
~ Leonard Nimoy
You should just dump the whole saving the world plan and go with global domination. It's probably be more fun.
~ Katie MacAlister
Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you, " I say. "Controlling you is.
~ Veronica Roth, Insurgent
What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which is being polluted, strip-mined, deforested, and cut up into parcels of private property. Equally, this pattern points to the fragmentation of the psyche, which ultimately underlies and enables all of this damage.
~ Jane Caputi
Translation theorized as a purely technical and linguistic matter, concerned with the transfer of meanings from one language to another, not associated with political issues of domination,submission, assimilation and resistance.
~ Douglas Robinson
If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.
~ Noam Chomsky
The male domination and chauvinism of the comics form is either being wittily lampooned in 'Watchmen' or handily perpetuated, depending on whom you ask.
~ Lydia Millet
As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated.
~ Hugo Chavez
The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.
~ Jack Keane
Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state.
~ Michael Ignatieff
le fait d'accorder une importance prépondérante aux considérations d'ordre économiques, qui est un caractère très frappant de notre époque, peut être regardé comme un signe de la domination des Vaishyas, dont l'équivalent approximatif est représenté dans le monde occidental par la bourgeoisie ; et c'est bien celle-ci qui domine en effet depuis la Révolution.
~ Rene Guenon
Violence is an instrumentality, not a psychopathology or a character disorder. Violence is a means to an end—domination and control—one of many possible means. Since its essence is injury, its efficacy in the long term is marginal, but its short-term advantages are obvious.
~ Richard Rhodes
My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine.
~ Rick Riordan
For reason, on the one hand, signifies the idea of a free, human social life. On the other hand, reason is the court of judgment of calculation, the instrument of domination, and the means for the greatest exploitation of nature.
~ Kathy Acker
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!
~ Ken Kesey
Power wears out those who do not have it.
~ Mario Puzo
Content is an obstacle to the exercise of power.
~ John Ralston Saul
What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.
~ Kristin Cashore
For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.
~ Robert Payne
The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)
~ Angelo Codevilla
For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the visitation of fear, a prelude to the domination of the mind and the triumph of power
~ Wole Soyinka