Quotes about Subjugation

He understood that, contrary to what most people think, total power means total slavery.

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.

In this world, people are violent toward people that they feel are conceptualized as smaller than them. It's an impulse that we have.

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.

One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.

Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

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.

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.

Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

he knew that the words they were eager to absorb and believe were the chains slipping in to hold them

Your enemies will cringe before you, and you will tread on their backs. Deuteronomy 33:29

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!