#domination

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

#consent #control #deployed #dominant #dominated

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

And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#categories #clearly #closed #cultural #culture

Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#cold #cold war #commit #crimes #domination

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

— Wole Soyinka

#domination #form #lie #power #selective

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

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men. ↗

— Strom Thurmond

#common #common knowledge #cunning #domination #government

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

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#dictatorship #domination #will #world