Jack Kerouac Quotes

Occupation leads to alienation.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

For some people, being free means being free to keep their feet on someone else's chest.

Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.

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

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from them, which was perfectly all right. They didn't want it anyway. It was as though they had surrendered themselves to Jesus, for instance, so they could live unselfishly and trustingly-except that they had surrendered to a pimp instead.

Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.

We are the slaves of slaves

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.

The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.

Power wears out those who do not have it.

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

You keep folks so intimidated. You can give them money, access, but they're still scared. And as long as you're scared, you're on the plantation.

Remembrance saves a people's soul from whatever or whoever would attempt to dominate it or use it for their interests.

Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to control.

Growing up I had a real disconnect with the planet.

The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or - much more mysteriously - to submit to it.

The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.

An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.