#domination

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned — would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#independence #individuality #leadership #submission #suppression

The world you once knew is no more for you. ↗

— Travis Luedke

#change #control #domination #nightlife #submission

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature. ↗

— Cornel West

#nihilism #social-science #nature

One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my name across the face of the world, build cities of gold, come back and stomp this place flat, until even the bricks are just dust. So you can just shut up. All of you. I'm going to move the world. ↗

— Austin Grossman

#masks #shut-up #supervillains #world-domination #anger

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#domination #life #love #relationships #life

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been. ↗

— John H. Reagan

#compel #domination #folly #free #i

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

— Andrea Dworkin

#domination #love #patriarchy #love

Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy children are you used to dealing with?" "Gryffindors," spat Professor McGonagall, the word carrying a freight of bitterness and despair that fell like an eternal curse on all youthful heroism and high spirits. ↗

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

#harry-potter #world-domination #heroism

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#among #arbitrary #arbitrary power #civilization #degrees

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#matrimony #particularly #similarity #taste #tastes