Quotes about Subjugation
He understood that, contrary to what most people think, total power means total slavery.
— Paulo Coelho
If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
— Desmond Tutu
Marx's dream of a workers' paradise had degenerated into an Orwellian nightmare; conformity was the highest good, informants kept watch on every block, whole countries lived behind barbed wire, and governments insisted that down was up and black was white.
— Madeleine Albright
One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.
— James Allen
Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine
— Frederick Douglass
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
— CS Lewis
Even the idyllic garden of Eden was a war zone. The command to rule and subdue put God's image bearers on high alert that fierce resistance lay ahead.
— Carolyn Custis James
Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.
— Aristotle
he knew that the words they were eager to absorb and believe were the chains slipping in to hold them
— Ayn Rand
Your enemies will cringe before you, and you will tread on their backs. Deuteronomy 33:29
— Beth Moore
What still more shocking outrages were perpetrated upon his mind! with all his noble powers and sublime aspirations, how like a brute was he treated, even by those professing to have the same mind in them that was in Christ Jesus! to what dreadful liabilities was he continually subjected!
— Frederick Douglass
While you have strong frames and robust constitutions, you have not the gift of intellect—you could not think for yourselves—you could not provide for yourselves—so the Lord in his infinite goodness has given you kind masters to think for you—[laughter].
— Frederick Douglass