Domination Quotes

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Faith, Education, History

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Robert Frost

Power, Control, Violence

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy, Habit, Conditions

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Power, Attitude, Hate

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Ambrose Bierce

Taste, Similarity, Matrimony

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
Ansel Adams

Love, Reality, Thought

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Serj Tankian

Change, Religion, Excuses

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

True, Culture, System

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
Theodor Adorno

Far, Less, Principle

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
David Herbert Lawrence

Change, Liberty, Another

Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.
Ahmed Yassin

Islam, Allah, Battle

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
Wole Soyinka

Power, Truth, Lie

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.
Rosa Luxemburg

Working, Against, Class

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Theodor Adorno

Violence, Physical, Delegates

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Theodor Adorno

Art, Everything, Folk

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Success, Put, Purpose

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.
Mikhail Bakunin

State, Turn, Slavery

Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.
Pat Robertson

Religion, Islam, Political

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.
Stephen Jay Gould

Mirror, Either, Survival

Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
Alexander McQueen

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
William Glasser

Education, Challenge, Certainty

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.
Sidney Poitier

Racial, Ethnic, Everywhere

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
Kent Nerburn

Fall, Belief, False

I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.
Nicki Minaj

Family, Thinking, Goal

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Serj Tankian

Change, Religion, Excuses

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
Thabo Mbeki

Africa, White, Example

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
Mikhail Gorbachev

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

Life, History, Constant

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
Orson Scott Card

War, Government, Important

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
Herbert Marcuse

Society, Become, Reason

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