Domination Quotes - Page 5

• Go to a nearby military cemetery and look at the American flags stuck on each grave and think of the person buried there who was killed for global domination or for the blunders and egomania of our leadership. And remember, for every person buried there, 10 more loved that person and were shattered by the loss. Instead of saluting, softly say: 'I'm sorry.' ... We need to make Memorial Day a relic of the past.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Memorial Day, Sorry, War

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• That is the onslaught. It has been going on a long time, I argue, but in the 20th century humans have certainly perfected it, extending domination to every single corner of the earth and our Homo sapiens population to more than 6 billion - until no place is untouched by despoliation.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Long, Population, Earth

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.

  Al Gore

  Political, Culture, Facts

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• Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

  James A. Baldwin

  Anger, Argument, Rage

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• So, the first thing we should introspect - are we concerned about ourselves ? All the time do we think that we are suffering, we have this problem, that problem, or this should be done, that should be done. If the attention is on that, that all the time you are worried about yourself, then you cannot break, you cannot break through this shell of your being which is under the domination of your mental selfishness or self centeredness.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• It's designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and domination, and to set the working people in the world in competition with one another so as to lower wages to increase insecurity

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Insecurity, Competition

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• War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring and sharing side uplifts us, or we can continue to embrace a worldview where domination using violence imprisons us in cycles of killing and destruction. I'm a biologist, and war is not genetically fixed. War is a cultural invention. It's time to end this abomination, and this World Beyond War movement is uniquely focused on unifying the human community to create one of the biggest revolutions in history. I'm in. Join us!

  Judith Hand

  Uplifting, War, Caring

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• Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

  John Milton

  Angel, Light, Thrones

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 600

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• What’s a little calming distraction for your girlfriend in the midst of world entertainment domination?” “I’d stop the world from spinning for you.” That silly line oddly touched me. “I love you.” “Liked that one, did you?

  Sylvia Day

  Girlfriend, Silly, Love You

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.650, Penguin

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• A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.

  John Stuart Mill

  Ambition, Government, Political

  John Stuart Mill (1848). “Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy”, p.523

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• What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Bacteria, Outstanding, Constant

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• Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

  James Madison

  Army, Debt, Libertarian

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.106, University of Virginia Press

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• Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Feminism, Western Culture

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.26, Routledge

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• All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

  Honore de Balzac

  Idols, Noble, Want

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• Gideon woke up ready to conquer the world, and he liked to start that domination with me. How lucky was I?

  Sylvia Day

  Conquer The World, Gideon, Lucky

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.277, Penguin

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• They were back. The demons in all their glory. And they had a plan. I made plans sometimes, too, but they rarely involved world domination. Hot dogs on a grill, maybe. Tequila.

  Darynda Jones

  Dog, Hot, World

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.105, Macmillan

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• World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Phrases, World, Ugly

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  The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.

  Bell Hooks

  Love, Moving, Way

  Bell Hooks (1994). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.298, Routledge

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• The craziest of all political systems, the unique leader state, has found its deserved end. History will note for eternity that the German people were not able on their own initiative to shake off the yoke of the National Socialists. The victory of the Americans, English, and Russians was a necessary occurrence to destroy the National Socialists' delusions and plans for world domination.

  Friedrich Kellner

  Unique, People, Political

  "My Opposition, Volume 2 (May 1, 1945)". Diary by Friedrich Kellner, 2011.

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• Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

  James Madison

  Inspirational, War, Army

  "Political Observations" by James Madison, founders.archives.gov. April 20, 1795.

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• Television's contribution to family life has been an equivocal one. For while it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from dispersing, it has not served to bring them together. By its domination of the time families spend together, it destroys the special quality that distinguishes one family from another, a quality that depends to a great extent on what a family does, what special rituals, games, recurrent jokes, familiar songs, and shared activities it accumulates.

  Marie Winn

  Song, Games, Special

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• The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.

  Bell Hooks

  Commitment, Soul

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.103, Routledge

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• Language conveys a certain power. It is one of the instruments of domination. It is carefully guarded by the superior people because it is one of the means through which they conserve their supremacy.

  Sheila Rowbotham

  Mean, People, Language

  Sheila Rowbotham (1999). “Threads Through Time: Writings on History and Autobiography”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.

  Bell Hooks

  Ethos, Vision, Males

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.14, Routledge

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• Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.

  Will Durant

  Real, Mind, Progress

  Will Durant, John R. Little (2002). “The greatest minds and ideas of all time”, Simon and Schuster

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