domination quotes

We must protect big business from domination by fat- minded men whose principal business policy is to avoid a competitive race for efficiency† They believe in a system of soft enterprise,soft in the way that an octopus is soft, with tentacles that stifle and suffocate.

-ThurmanWesley Arnold
  'The  Abuse of Patents', in  Atlantic Monthly,  Jul.

   We shall never sheath the sword which we have not lightly drawn until Belgium recovers in full measure all and more than all that she has sacrificed, until France is adequatelyassured against the menace of aggression, until the rights of the smaller nationalities of Europe are placed upon an unassailable foundation and until the military domination of Prussia is wholly and finally destroyed.

-Asquith
  Speech at the Guildhall, London, 9 Nov.

During my lifetime I have dedicated my life to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideals of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hopeto live for, and toseerealized.But My Lord, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
  Speech in court, 20  Apr, when charged under the Suppression of Communism  Act and facing the death penalty.

'Beauty' is a currency like the gold standard. Like any economy it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in theWest it isthe last, best belief systemthat keeps male domination intact.

- Naomi Wolf
  The Beauty Myth, ch.1,'The Beauty Myth'.