Domination Quotes

If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable – and this is why we are the enemies of the State. (Mikhail Bakunin)
Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness. View quote
Erich Fromm
As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism. View quote
Che Guevara
The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before-which means that the scope of society's domination over the individual is immeasurably greater than ever before. Our society distinguishes itself by conquering the centrifugal social forces with Technology rather than Terror, on the dual basis of an overwhelming efficiency and an increasing standard of living. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
The fact that Communism and Fascism assigned contradictory roles to history and reason-the emancipation of the proletariat versus the domination of the Aryan race-mattered little. View quote
Francois Furet
Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls. View quote
Barbara Amiel
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. View quote
Kent Nerburn
Our relations with Iran have witnessed grave crises because of the policies of successive regimes in Iran which have considered Iraq and the Arab homeland, particularly the Arab Gulf area, as a sphere for domination and influence. View quote
Saddam Hussein
The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours. (Jean-Baptiste Say)
If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration? View quote
Vladimir Lenin
The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations - all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Imperialism is capitalism in that stage of development in which the domination of monopolies and finance capital has established itself; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun; in which the partition of all the territories of the globe among the great capitalist powers has been completed. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it. View quote
Pierre Bourdieu
Working together, we can build a world in which the rule of law - not the rule of force - governs relations between states. A world in which leaders respect the rights of their people, and nations seek peace, not destruction or domination. And neither we nor anyone else should live in fear ever again. View quote
Wesley Clark
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt to the world of oppression. View quote
Paulo Freire
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students. View quote
Paulo Freire
Islam is not a religion of peace. It's a political theory of conquest that seeks domination by any means it can. (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is. View quote
Camille Paglia
The struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism without struggles to end racism or classism undermine their own efforts. Individuals who fight for the eradication of racism or classism while supporting sexist oppression are helping to maintain the cultural basis of all forms of group oppression. View quote
Bell hooks
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. View quote
Bell hooks