

“...people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”
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“Domination is a relationship, not a condition; it depends on the participation of both parties. Hierarchical power is not just the gun in the policeman's hand; it is just as much the obedience of the ones who act as if it is always pointed at them. It is not just the government and the executives and the armed forces; it extends through society from top to bottom, an interlocking web of control and compliance. Sometimes all it takes to be complicit in the oppression of millions is to die of natural causes.”
― Contradictionary
― Contradictionary

“Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or no power.”
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“Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility.”
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