Quotes About Hegemony

The Western world and Superpowers are as a legalized hegemony in the lap of the United Nations, where its resolutions cry for peace, getting no way at gunpoint of the Veto.

When and how Muslim States and groups will become free from sectarian hegemony, killing each other for that than the welfare of the Muslim States and the people?

State = political society + civil society, in other words hegemony protected by the armor of coercion.

creer que somos "uno" que tiene existencia por sí mismo, desligado de la inconmensurable pluralidad de los propios yoes, representa una ilusión lo demás ingenua, de la tradición cristiana de una alma única (…) porque nosotros tenemos varias almas dentro de nosotros, ¿comprende?, una confederación que se pone bajo el control de un yo hegemónico".

The question of hegemony is always the question of a new cultural order.

The function of hegemony is to transform ideology into culture, into a "world view" that is seen as "normal" and "natural" by everyone from the controlling classes to the subordinate classes. Today, the major means of establishing the hegemony are the mass media.

Patriarchy has effectively used exclusion as a central tenet of its ideological claims to hegemony in all our societies, where one is looking at notions of identity, of rights and privilege, of access and inclusion into institutions and sites of power.

In contrast to the constitution-writing convention of 1787 in Philadelphia where there would be many delegates representative of the modern elites but none from the demos,23 at Putney the lower classes and the poor were present and democratic arguments were advanced. Those debates also saw the appearance of a new and self-conscious presence defending the political hegemony of nascent capitalists.24

It is commonly observed that today's domestic politics has changed in tactics and ferocity with the avowed aim of establishing a permanent Republican majority, the domestic equivalent of imperial hegemony, heralding a new politics and citizenry.

The aim of states is to be the biggest and baddest dude on the block because if you're the biggest and baddest dude on the block, then it is highly unlikely that any other state will challenge you simply because you're so powerful.

However, all of these "progressive" goals now require the unraveling of Western hegemony. Western civilization, once the driving force of human progress, is now treated as its greatest obstacle.

As in the Christian Dark Ages following imperial Rome's collapse, Stavrianos argued, the coming collapse of Western hegemony will release nonwhite peoples from cultural and economic bondage and launch a new era of peace and prosperity.

that the Hegemony of World Finance should reign supreme over everyone, everywhere, as one whole super-national control mechanism. (Montagu Norman by John Hargrave, Greystone Press, N.Y., 1942.)

Aided and abetted by Austria-Hungary, Germany's behaviour in July 1914 was the most important single factor in bringing about the First World War. The German leadership wanted hegemony in Europe and was prepared to go to war to achieve it. Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles, the 'war guilt clause', which declared that the Great War was 'imposed upon' the Allies 'by the aggression of Germany and her allies' was, therefore, fundamentally correct.

Jews have been harmed by the threats to freedom of opinion and debate, the punishments for candor, and the decline in rigorous standards in the academy that have accompanied progressive hegemony, which insists upon the sacrosanct status of affirmative action and other policies favored by the left.

The distribution of cultures in the world reflects the distribution of power. Trade may or may not follow the flag, but culture almost always follows power.

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.

The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s.

A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors.

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

The clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline of hegemonic powers.

The war against terror is not really about terror. It's about a superpower's self-destructive impulse toward supremacy, stranglehold, global hemegony.

All we seem to be left with now is paranoid gibberish about a War on Terror whose whole purpose is to expand the War, increase the Terror, and obfuscate the fact that the wars of today are not aberrations but systemic, logical exercises to preserve a way of life whose delicate pleasures and exquisite comforts can only be delivered to the chosen few by a continuous, protracted war for hegemony--Lifestyle Wars.