Jean Baudrillard Quotes

A new kind of slavery will emerge. It will probably adopt the cruelest form of domination the community could impose upon the individual and the state upon the community.

You're a Good Little Slave

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Why do you all push us around?

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape.

The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

Call someone your lord and he'll sell you in the slave market.

It is bad to have a servant, but worse to have a master.

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man..