{"quotes":[{"text":"Another basic characteristic of liberalism which constitutes a formidable obstacle to an oppressed group's liberation is its conception of human nature. If selfishness, aggressiveness, the drive to conquer and dominate, really are among defining human traits, as every liberal philosopher since Locke tries to convince us, the oppression in civil society—I.E. In the social sphere not regulated by the state—is a fact of life, and the basic civil relationship between a man and a women will always remain a battlefield. Woman, being less aggressive, is then either the less human of the two and doomed to subjugation, or else she must get more power-hungry herself and try to dominate man. Liberation for both is not feasible.","author":"Mihailo Markovic","tags":["aggression","domination","feminism","human","liberalism","man","order","power","relationship","subjugation","woman"],"id":8797,"author_id":"Mihailo+Markovic"},{"text":"It is also the irrational instinct of religionism, the vague yearning for something to worship—a reflection or shadow of the true devotional principle—which prompts men to project a subjective image of the lower, personal mind, and to endow it with human attributes, and then to claim to receive 'revelations' from it; and this—the image of the Beast, or unspiritual mind,—is their anthropomorphic God, a fabulous monster the worship of which has ever prompted men to fanaticism and persecution, and has inflicted untold misery and dread upon the masses of mankind, as well as physical torture and death in hideous forms upon the many martyrs who have refused to bend the knee to this Gorgonean phantom of the beast-mind of man. Truly, where the worshipers of this image of the Beast predominate, the man whose brow and hand are unbranded by this superstition, who neither thinks nor acts in accordance with it, suffers ostracism if not virulent persecution.","author":"James Morgan Pryse","tags":["13-13-18","1910","apocalypse","beast","fanaticism","gorgon","idolatry","revelation","subjugation","superstition"],"id":54684,"author_id":"James+Morgan+Pryse"},{"text":"Government as we now know it in the USA and other economically advanced countries is so manifestly horrifying, so corrupt, counterproductive, and outright vicious, that one might well wonder how it continues to enjoy so much popular legitimacy and to be perceived so widely as not only tolerable but indispensable. The answer, in overwhelming part, may be reduced to a two-part formula: bribes and bamboozlement (classically 'bread and circuses'). Under the former rubric falls the vast array of government 'benefits' and goodies of all sorts, from corporate subsidies and privileges to professional grants and contracts to welfare payments and health care for low-income people and other members of the lumpenproletariat. Under the latter rubric fall such measures as the government schools, the government's lapdog news media, and the government's collaboration with the producers of professional sporting events and Hollywood films. Seen as a semi-integrated whole, these measures give current governments a strong hold on the public's allegiance and instill in the masses and the elites alike a deep fear of anything that seriously threatens the status quo.","author":"Robert Higgs","tags":["anarchy","austrian-school-of-economics","belief","capitalism","coercion","collectivism","communi","democracy","empire","free","free-markets","freedom","irrational","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","markets","non-aggression-principle","peace","politics","prosperity","self-ownership","slavery","socialism","statism","subjugation","superstition","taxation","theft","totalitarianism","trade","useful-idiots","voluntaryism","voluntaryist"],"id":57284,"author_id":"Robert+Higgs"},{"text":"Do as you must -- you are not a child. But understand that there are many people willing to make your life more difficult. It is up to you to find a way to make things easier for yourself.","author":"Nadia Hashimi","tags":["burqa","child","difficult","family","samina","shekiba","subjugation"],"id":92433,"author_id":"Nadia+Hashimi"},{"text":"The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-economics","austrian-school-of-economics","collectivism","free-market","freedom","gang","government","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","mafia","nap","non-aggression-principle","politics","slavery","socialism","statism","subjugation","taxation","theft","thieves","violence","voluntaryism"],"id":108335,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.","author":"Antonia Fraser","tags":["dignity","empowerment","feminism","gender","history","independence","inequality","marriage","married-life","matrimony","men","misogyny","perception","self-abnegation","self-determination","social-norms","subjugation","wedlock","women","women-s-rights"],"id":118228,"author_id":"Antonia+Fraser"},{"text":"This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be understood in the same sense as when we say we are subject to natural disasters, diseases, and all the other accidents of this life: it's not a case of being subjected in the sense of obeying, but rather of suffering an imposition, not a case of serving them fearfully, but rather of tolerating them in a spirit of Christian charity, since they have been given to us by God as a spiritual trial.","author":"Moderata Fonte","tags":["dignity","empowerment","feminism","gender","inequality","men","misogyny","pre-eminence","self-esteem","social-norms","subjection","subjugation","superiority","women"],"id":129799,"author_id":"Moderata+Fonte"},{"text":"It really is something ... That men disapprove even of our doing things that are patently good. Wouldn't it be possible for us just to banish these men from our lives, and escape their carping and jeering once and for all? Couldn't we live without them? Couldn't we earn our living and manage our affairs without help from them? Come on, let's wake up, and claim back our freedom, and the honour and dignity that they have usurped from us for so long. Do you think that if we really put our minds to it, we would be lacking the courage to defend ourselves, the strength to fend for ourselves, or the talents to earn our own living? Let's take our courage into our hands and do it, and then we can leave it up to them to mend their ways as much as they can: we shan't really care what the outcome is, just as long as we are no longer subjugated to them.","author":"Moderata Fonte","tags":["careers","courage","dignity","empowerment","equality","feminism","freedom","gender","gifts","honour","independence","insults","livelihood","men","personal-finances","respect","self-determination","social-norms","strength","subjugation","talents","women","work"],"id":142723,"author_id":"Moderata+Fonte"},{"text":"A nation will never be vanished by subjugation or oppression, unless they get used to.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["nation","oppression","subjugation","vanish"],"id":167787,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"The necessity, then, of those “lesser breeds without the law”—those wogs, barbarians, niggers—is this: one must not become more free, not become more base than they: must not be used as they are used, nor yet use them as their abandonment allows one to use them: therefore, they must be civilized. But, when they are civilized, they may simply “spuriously imitate [the civilizer] back again,” leaving the civilizer with no satisfaction on which to rest.","author":"James Baldwin","tags":["civilization","empire","imitation","subjugation"],"id":224631,"author_id":"James+Baldwin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}