Domination Quote by Theodor Adorno Download Open image “Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.” — Theodor Adorno ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Domination Physical violence Violence
Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means. In such… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“A huge majority of parents use some form of physical or verbal aggression against children. Since women remain the primary caretakers of children, the facts confirm the reality that given a hierarchal system in a culture of domination which empowers females (like the parent-child relationship) all too often they use coercive force to maintain dominance. In a culture of domination… — bell hooks Copy Share
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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“in the epoch of representation, assault rules. The regime of representation produces violence.” — Barbara Bolt Copy Share Image
Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The dominance of [an ideology] is shown by the fact that the dominated classes live their conditions of political existence through the forms of… — Nicos Poulantzas Copy Share Image
“[O]ne cannot separate violence from the very exist ence of the state (as the apparatus of class domination): from the standpoint of the'subordinated and… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“... the repression of primitive, violent impulses in favor of civilized behavior was a control mechanism for the more shrewdly aggressive dominators who successfully… — R. U. Sirius Copy Share Image
“The violence of hierarchy is the violence that the powerful use against the dispossessed to keep them subordinated. As an example, the violence committed… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job,… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“The paradise offered by the culture industry is the same old drudgery. Both escape and elopement are pre-designed to lead back to the starting… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Suppose Vietnam could separate itself from the American dominated global system and carry out a successful social and economic development. Then that is very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it… — Enoch Powell Copy Share
The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems - the powers, the thrones, the dominations - the things which perpetually merge with men and emerge from them? Our darkness, externalized and visible? However you look upon these matters, the critical point was reached. The wrath… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share
“…the excitement of doing something for the first time had passed. I laid there in the back seat looking at the moon. It was unobscured by clouds except for a few wisps here and there. (Mitch) put his arms around me, and we looked at the moon together. You think we’ll have a lot of moons like this, this month?… — Karen Hinton Copy Share
The New World Order is a more palatable name for the Anglo American world empire. It's the planetary domination of London, New York, Washington over the rest of the world. It's hard to get people to join that or think they have a part in it if you called it the Anglo American world empire. If you call it the… — Alex Jones Copy Share
“Manipulation. Domination. Control. These are the three watchwords of violent serial offenders.” — John E. Douglas Copy Share Image
The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image