Hegemony Quotes

• Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

  Noam Chomsky

  Nature, Believe, Hero

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky (2010). “American Power and the New Mandarins”, p.502, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Balance, Ends, Balance Of Power

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• I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

  Dustin Hoffman

  War, Believe, Oil

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• The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  America, Depth, Shallow

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2016). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.35, Basic Books

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• My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things

  Clifford Geertz

  People, Want, Instinct

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• Hegemony is as old as mankind.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Mankind

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.8, Basic Books

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• Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.

  Arundhati Roy

  Rights, Neoliberalism, Projects

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Europe, Connections, Dollars

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• It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time

  Michel Foucault

  Would Be, Matter, Truth Is

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

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• People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.

  Aloe Blacc

  People, Evil, Tolerance

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• Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

  Pat Buchanan

  Cost, Soil, Violence

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• To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow the military hegemony it sought in Western Europe and of restoring the will, cohesiveness, and security of the NATO alliance, so badly frayed during the turbulent 1970s.

  Frank Gaffney

  Military, Europe, President

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• The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these contradictions. It is not the instrument of government of the dominant groups in order to gain the consent and exercise hegemony over the subaltern classes. It is the expression of subaltern classes who want to educate themselves in the art of government and who have an interest in knowing all truths, even the unpleasant ones, and in avoiding the impossible deceptions of the upper class, and even more their own.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Art, Philosophy, Exercise

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• The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.

  Shimon Peres

  People, Middle East, World

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• The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what has been appropriately termed the 'ruling class'. The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship of the proletariat, outright fascism, or, in the case of the United States, corporate statism. In each instance the ruling class relies on academics, scholars and 'experts' to legitimize and provide moral authority for its hegemony over the masses.

  Ed Crane

  Religious, Class, People

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• So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware (or conscious) of their true (or real) mission, would want to get on (or agree) to abolish every politics aiming at ("visant à", Fr.) expansion or hegemony; system that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them (or force or compel, "leur impose", Fr.) formidable armies and crushing war budgets.

  African Spir

  Crush, Real, War

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 54), 1937.

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• The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.

  Morris Berman

  Military, Political, Enlightenment

  "Waiting for the barbarians" by Morris Berman, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2001.

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• As such the meaning of hegemony is subject to varying interpretations depending on how the historical role of the United States is interpreted.

  Richard A. Falk

  Historical, United States, Roles

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands.

  Tariq Ali

  Europe, Understanding

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

  Arundhati Roy

  Business, War, Reason

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.68, South End Press

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• Quran says do not abuse others' gods, they will abuse Allah. But most people do not believe in this... they feel their way is the only right one. This is to maintain religious hegemony.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Religious, Believe, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

  Paul Bowles

  Men, Sickness, Illness

  Paul Bowles (2002). “The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House”

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• It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Art, Sacrifice, Technology

  "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

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• This country has had 200 years of hegemony over the rest of the world, and it feels like our politicians, they just want to give that back.

  Donald Trump, Jr.

  Country, Years, Giving

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Hegemony is not defined by rivers or conventional borders - it's dominance, it's influence. So we get to decide in our hearts, are we in Iraq to help restore something, or are we there to establish dominance? How can you torture people and say, well, that's just a few bad apples in our culture?

  Dar Williams

  Heart, Rivers, Iraq

  Source: progressive.org

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