Jack Bowman Quotes

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.

If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?

It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.

I understand working-class culture, tribalism and the ethos of violence, so I make films about these things.

There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live.

If religion is still being taught, it is by no means because its ideas still convince us, but simply because some of us want to keep the lower classes quiet. Quiet people are much easier to govern than clamorous and dissatisfied ones. They are also much easier to exploit..

Oppression is but another name for irresponsible power, if history is to be trusted.

… in the old days there were one thousand castes and destinies in India. These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies and Men with Small Bellies. And only two destinies: eat – or get eaten up

It is necessary to be very intelligent in the work of oppression.

There will always be authorities who try to make their own lives more comfortable by suppressing critical comment.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

Beyond fashion, I think that culture has a side where they love to shoot you up like a clay pigeon and then take out their rifles. I lived that, and I got to see the perspective from up in the sky.

In fact, the religious right consists of an alliance of several groups that, without experiencing anything like the oppression visited on black Americans, have consistently occupied lower rungs in the American social hierarchy.

Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.

Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.

The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

If too many people feel excluded from the system and cannot access its benefits, they will ultimately rebel against it.

I'm the darkie you can't control!