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“One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It’s hard to unlearn such hierarchy, to undo such control. It’s implicit.”

Book:Of Bodies Changed

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“Who can we trust with a monopoly of the planet killer weapons and unlimited powers of inspection and arrest? Why, a country big and modern enough to make peace-keeping a major industry; but not big enough to conquer anyone else or force its will on anyone without the support of a majority of nations; and reasonably well thought of by everyone. In short, Sweden.”

International Relations Hegemony

Book:Tau Zero

Source: Tau Zero

“Decadence, decadence, he said to himself. They’ve lost everything and gained nothing. The French had merely daubed on the finishing touches at the end of a process which had begun five hundred years ago, at least. Their intuitive moral desires coincided with the ideals embodied in the formulas of their religion, yet they could live in accordance neither with those deepest impulses nor with the precepts of the religion, because society came in between with all the pressure of its tradition. No one could afford to be honest or generous or merciful because every one of them distrusted all the others; often they had more confidence in a Christian they were meeting for the first time than in a Moslem they had known for years.”

Christianity Tradition Islam Conformity Colonialism Mistrust Western Civilization Decadence Hegemony Morocco Social Convention Westernization French Morocco Social Pressures

Book:The Spider's House

Source: The Spider's House

“North American cinema is the only true weapon of mass destruction. It has achieved to convince the audience not only that it's the best possible cinema, but that it is the only.”

Cinema Domination American Hegemony Cultural Hegemony Parochial Conditioning

Author:Arturo Ripstein

“Taking part in the Western mission to civilize the East is highly spiritually rewarding. And what is political destabilization and social unrest but a sweet revenge for China's disregard for Western hegemony.”

China Imperialism Hegemony

Author:Thorsten J. Pattberg

“We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.”

Life Inspirational

Book:The Power of Myth

Source: The Power of Myth

“Some women seem so voluptuous in every sense, richly bountiful and fertile with generous gifts of plenty, sensual and confident in their female strength that they are called "earth mothers." That’s how some days feel—when they are bountiful and fertile with the power of our imagination.”

Inspiration Earth Women Rich Woman Day Days Voluptuousness Earth Mother

Book:The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“The capitalist world-economy needs the states, needs the interstate system, and needs the periodic appearance of hegemonic powers. But the priority of capitalists is never the maintenance, much less the glorification, of any of these structures. The priority remains always the endless accumulation of capital, and this is best achieved by an ever-shifting set of political and cultural dominances within which capitalist firms maneuver, obtaining their support from the states but seeking to escape their dominance.”

States Capitalism Imperialism Accumulation Hegemony Profits World Systems Analysis

Book:World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction

Source: World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction

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