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• No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens... spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.

  Guy Debord

  Cutting, Order, Tree

  "Comments on the Society of the Spectacle". Book by Guy Debord, 1988.

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• Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need to stand out, to be paid attention to and be considered apart from the rest Fashion elevates the insignificant by making it in the representative of a totality, the particular incarnation of a common spirit. Its function is to make possible the kind of social obedience which is at the same time individual differentiation It is the mixing of submission and the feeling of domination that is in action here.

  Georg Simmel

  Fashion, Support, Feelings

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• In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic telos of the ‘West’s’ escalating dominations of abstract individuation, an ultimate self untied at last from all dependency, a man in space.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Men, Self, Space

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• Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.

  Chris Hedges

  Different, Ruthlessness, Economics

  Chris Hedges (2010). “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, p.146, Nation Books

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• The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Development, Trends, Abolition

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism”, p.48, Wildside Press LLC

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• How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?

  Andrea Dworkin

  One Love, Love Someone, Persons

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• It will take a massive effort to move society from corporate domination, in which industry's rights to pollute and damage health and the environment supersede the public's right to live, work, and play in safety. This is a political fight. The science is already there, showing that people's health is at risk. To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake.

  Lois Gibbs

  Children, Work, Moving

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• No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It is the incubus that sits on our energies, stops the pulsation of the nation's heart and leaves to Ireland not gay vitality but horrid the convulsions of a troubled dream.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Dream, Country, Heart

  "O'Connell Correspondence, Vol IV". Book by Daniel O'Connell, Letter to Bishop Doyle (N. 1860), 1831.

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• Dare I speak ,to oppressed and opressor in the same voice? Dare I speak to you in a language that will move beyond the boundaries of domination- a language, that will not bind you, fence you in, or hold you? Language is also a place of struggle. The oppressed struggle in language to recover ourselves, to reconcile, to reunite, to renew. Our words are not without meaning, they are an action, a resistance. Language is also a place of struggle.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Moving, Voice

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.160, Routledge

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• There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The forces that seek power over others have gained the upperhand against those that seek freedom. By harming wealth creation,they cause even more strain on society. Historically, this is nothingnew. State domination over its subjects has roots that connect statism,totalitarianism, communism, and socialism to more modern-day variantsof liberalism and progressivism. It is a constant fight and we mustwin.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Fighting, Roots, Wealth Creation

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• As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination or unfair advantage. Together we have been partners in adversitylet us also be partners in prosperity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Together, Capes, Rising

  "Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 25, 1963.

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• 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.... We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment. Then virtue and contentment will come and reign within your heart, unsought by any effort of your own; and you will be a good citizen, a loving husband, and a tender father—a noble, pious man.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Husband, Father, Health

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.32, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Every country should realize that its turn at world domination, domination because its rights coincided more or less with the character or progress of the epoch, must terminate with the change brought about by this progress.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Country, Character, Rights

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• Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.

  Nelson Mandela

  Color, Racism, Political

  "Nelson Mandela’s Epitaph, in His Own Words" by Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2013.

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• The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Spring, Resentment, Language

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• But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.

  George MacDonald

  Unhappy, Rich, Slave

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• The real tragedy is that we're all human beings, and human beings have a sense of dignity. Any domination by one human over another leads to a loss of some part of his dignity. Is one's dignity that big it can be crumbled away like that?

  Yusuf Idris

  Real, Loss, Tragedy

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• Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals as the soft-headed mental masturbation of people who really don't understand oppression and the depths of actual human misery, I hope to get you to think differently about suffering and pain, to convince you that animals matter, and to argue that anyone serious about ending domination and hierarchy needs to think critically about bringing animals into consideration.

  Bob Torres

  Pain, Thinking, Animal

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• You should just dump the whole saving the world plan and go with global domination. It's probably be more fun.

  Katie MacAlister

  Funny Inspirational, World, Saving

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• In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate change and glittering malls, Calcuttan poverty and sybaritic wealth, biotic impoverishment and economic growth, militarism and terrorism, global domination and utter vulnerability are not different things but manifestations of a single system.

  David W. Orr

  Perspective, Growth, Environmental

  David W. Orr (2012). “The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror”, p.44, Island Press

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• If I was a supervillain then I guess I'd want what all supervillains want, which is world domination. I wouldn't want anything less than all the other supervillains.

  Joseph Bruce

  World, Want, Supervillains

  "Insane Clown Posse's Violent J on working at McDonald's and Janet Jackson's curves". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 18, 2015.

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• The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Sacrifice, Views, People

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.65, VM eBooks

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• If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Peace, Winning

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.

  Abigail Adams

  Ignorance, Men, Parent

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.197

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• I sincerely believe patriarchy to be at the root of all of our social diseases and feminism, it's antidote, to be a prerequisite to peace on earth. feminism provides an alternative way of thinking and structuring things that focuses on and prioritizes relationships and de-emphasizes hierarchy, separation and domination.

  Ani DiFranco

  Believe, Thinking, Roots

  Interview with Mary Ann Rossoni, get-ri.com. September 1, 2015.

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