Norman Douglas Quotes

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

I remember being taught my place.

Power is dangerous for those who do not have it.

The law is solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it.

Powerlessness also corrupts.

The natural course of power is to make the many slaves to the few.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold onto the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own system of repression.

Brother! We have, as your friends, fought by your side, and have poured out our blood in your defense, but our arms are now broken. You have grown large. My people have become small, and there are none who take pity on them.

We have a tendency in life to be afraid of our oppressors.

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four.

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.