Domination Quotes - Page 13

• I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Basketball, Kentucky, Long

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.50, Pan Macmillan

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• As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Principles, Fundamentals

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

  Judith Butler

  Relation, Replicate

  Judith Butler (2011). “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity”, p.42, Routledge

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• Will any club dominate again? Are any club set up to dominate again? When you look at the clubs that have dominated they've usually got a core five, six or seven players who can stay there for 10 to 15 years. There is a continuity with the management. I'm not quite sure at the moment that I'm seeing the decision making at any of the top clubs to be able to suggest that domination is actually achievable again. Maybe in the future, but I'm not quite sure it'll happen very soon.

  Gary Neville

  Player, Years, Decision

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• Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.

  Joan Fontcuberta

  Photography, Matter, Tyranny

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• The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation.

  Andy Grundberg

  Reality, Photograph, Made

  Andy Grundberg (1990). “Crisis of the real: writings on photography, 1974-1989”

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• There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution. Whereas reformists are winning small gains, revolutionaries don't want people to be satisfied with those small victories because they worry this will lead to acceptance of the bigger picture of capitalism domination, and so they find a way to turn every victory into a defeat. In the book, I call for a culture of declaring victory wherever we can.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Book, Acceptance, Winning

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence . . . and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.

  Manitonquat

  Peace, Love Is, Ubuntu

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• Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Peace, Abuse, Foundation

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• One has to be very alert to go beyond lust. And one has to be constantly aware of jealousy, of possessiveness, of domination, because those are the strategies of lust. If you drop jealousy, possessiveness, ego trips, then slowly slowly lust disappears and love arises. Love is a pure flame without any smoke. It is prayer, it is divine, and it makes you divine.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Prayer, Love Is

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• More taxes, more regulation, more Washington domination, more debt. Those things are not the future for America. They will never work.

  Jeff Sessions

  America, Debt, Regulation

  Source: www.politico.com

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• For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.

  Bertrand Russell

  Equality, Thinking, Race

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• Trump is the living embodiment of the main character in the film American Psycho, a symbol of corporate domination on steroids, an out-of- control authoritarian parading and performing unknowingly as a clown, and as a symbol of unchecked narcissism and a bearer of a suffocating culture of fear. He is the symbol of a failed sociality and a declining social order.

  Henry Giroux

  Character, Culture, Psycho

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side against another, there should be criticism, because there must be critical consciousness if there are to be issues, problems, values, even lives to be fought for... Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are noncoercive knowledge produced in the interests of human freedom.

  Edward Said

  Believe, Thinking, Issues

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• There is a beautiful expression in Nicaragua: "struggle is the highest form of song". I love that. We are in the struggle. It's like a river. Once you step into it you become the river. It's not, you go out and click on a couple of charities that you believe in, march in the Women's March, and you're done. Struggle becomes your life, transforming a paradigm that is based on domination into a paradigm of co-operation. Fighting for the liberation of women, of people of color, of indigenous people, of lgbtq communities. Fighting to protect immigrants and assuring the safety of refugees.

  Eve Ensler

  Beautiful, Song, Couple

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, White Man, Black

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• The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the same thought is to say that the aim of sadism is to transform man into a thing, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - freedom.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Essence, Quality

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Heart of Man”, p.29, Lantern Books

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• In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.

  Robert Heller

  Teamwork, Motivation, Inspiration

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Passion, Thinking, Tea

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

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• I want to make sure I'm with a girl that's a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee and a cigarette. That's all I really want out of life. That, and world domination.

  Ryan Adams

  Girl, Coffee, Wake Up

  Rolling Stone interview, February 14, 2002.

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• In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and charitable acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained.

  Murray Bookchin

  Art, Medicine, Goal

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• Bourgeois society, rife with an atomism or monadism of secluded egos, is profoundly uncomfortable with topics of domination just because of the rift between how it sees itself (Kantian autonomism) and how it actually exists (pathetic prole-culture).

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Ego, Culture

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• Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

  Bell Hooks

  Inspiring, Live Life, Justice

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.118, Routledge

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