#domination

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#domination #frees #him #his #ideals

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

#bases #conquest #domination #empire #forceful

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 #communism #domination #excuses #first

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 #communism #domination #excuses #first

Dr. Horrible: And by the way it's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo. The world is a mess and I just need to rule it. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#humor #status-quo #wit #world-domination #humor

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

— Herbert Marcuse

#domination #entangled #fatally #itself #reason

It's taking all my self-control not to fuck you on the hood of this car, just to show you that you're mine, and if I want to buy you a fucking car, I'll buy you a fucking car" Christian Grey ↗

— E.L. James

#domination #sexy #sexy

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

— Theodor Adorno

#domination #elsewhere #far #fascism #ideological

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

— Theodor Adorno

#dominated #domination #physical #physical violence #rests

Until one nation ceases its attempts to dominate another, there will never be true freedom. Until one religion relinquishes its quest to prove its god superior to that of another, there shall never be world peace. We will never truly prosper or experience lasting harmony, until we refrain from preaching the gospel of our own moral values and our personal preferences by forcing it upon others. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

#coercion #controlling #diversity #extremism #freedom