Ideological Subjugation Quotes

Stalin, Lenin, Marx, Mao, Pol Pot, Antifa, Castro, Che Guevara and the like use power to reduce the sanctity of the individual for the common good of the collective. It is a kind of enslavement that degrades the human spirit and makes us poorer over time.

All oppressing classes of every description need two social functions to safeguard their domination: the function of a hangman and the function of a priest. The hangman is to quell the protest ... the priest reconciles them to class domination, weans them away from revolutionary actions.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

What Gramsci is all about is hegemony: you win the battle of ideas and it dominates.

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

Political dictatorships take possession not just of money and belongings but of narrative.

Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force of arms than to subjugate the minds of a single village... .