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  • Why should we care about the coup? First, because we depend on Yemen's government to support our drone war against another local menace, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). It's not clear if we can even maintain our embassy in Yemen, let alone conduct operations against AQAP. And second, because growing Iranian hegemony is a mortal threat to our allies and interests in the entire Middle East.

  • A young man's passion, a jaded siren's last chance for love, a world gone mad, cheap thrills, fast cars, expensive wines, the triumph of victory, the overthrow of ontologically incipient hegemony, and gum! I have no idea if this book has any of them! But I liked the part about the bunny.

    Book   Wine   Passion  
  • The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light of intellectual honesty.

    Honesty   Light   Goal  
  • In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

    Balance   Hegemony   Ends  
  • As such the meaning of hegemony is subject to varying interpretations depending on how the historical role of the United States is interpreted.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow the military hegemony it sought in Western Europe and of restoring the will, cohesiveness, and security of the NATO alliance, so badly frayed during the turbulent 1970s.

  • The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.

    "Waiting for the barbarians" by Morris Berman, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2001.
  • It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?

    "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.
  • There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an architect like Moshe Safdie that they are tired of it, then can philosophical thinking be far behind?

    "The Condition of Postmodernity". Book by David Harvey, 1989.
  • My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things

    People   Hegemony   Want  
  • Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

    Business   War   Hegemony  
    Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.68, South End Press
  • Hegemony is as old as mankind.

    Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.8, Basic Books
  • It can be said, truly said, that the Iraqi resistance is not just defending Iraq. They are defending all the Arabs and they are defending all the people of the world against American hegemony....It's not the Muslims who are sick. It's Bush and Blair and Berlusconi who are sick. It's not the Muslims who need to be cured. It's the imperialist countries that need to be cured.

    Country   Iraq   People  
  • It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time

    Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press
  • Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.

  • The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.

    Zbigniew Brzezinski (2016). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.35, Basic Books
  • The UDHR has become an iconic document over the course of more than six decades, the starting point for discussions of whether or not the rights as set forth are truly universal or slanted to reflect the hegemony of Western values, especially those associated with liberal individualism.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • My arguments for liberal empire or whatever you want to call it - hegemony, primacy, you name it - are really activated by a sense that the alternatives involve more violence, more repression, more hardship.

    "Imperial Denial". Interview with Nonna Gorilovskaya, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.
  • The United States has weakened itself with Iraq; Iranians feel victorious - they feel capable of filling the void. I think from the very outset the nuclear issue has been secondary to the more strategic outlook, in which the United States has, since 1991, pursued a policy that it cannot permit any country in the region to become too powerful and challenge American hegemony.

    "Trita Parsi: The NIE’s Got Nothing on Him". Interview with Justin Elliott, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2007.
  • Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware (or conscious) of their true (or real) mission, would want to get on (or agree) to abolish every politics aiming at ("visant à", Fr.) expansion or hegemony; system that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them (or force or compel, "leur impose", Fr.) formidable armies and crushing war budgets.

    Crush   Real   War  
    "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 54), 1937.
  • Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

    Nature   Believe   Hero  
    Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky (2010). “American Power and the New Mandarins”, p.502, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Hegemony is not defined by rivers or conventional borders - it's dominance, it's influence. So we get to decide in our hearts, are we in Iraq to help restore something, or are we there to establish dominance? How can you torture people and say, well, that's just a few bad apples in our culture?

    Heart   Rivers   Iraq  
    Source: progressive.org
  • Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply. Those Welsh, Scottish and Anglo-Irish individuals who became part of the British Establishment in this period did not in the main sell out in the sense of becoming Anglicised look-alikes. Instead, they became British in a new and intensely profitable fashion, while remaining in their own minds and behavior Welsh, or Scottish, or Irish aswell.

    Fashion   Mind   Hegemony  
  • The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these contradictions. It is not the instrument of government of the dominant groups in order to gain the consent and exercise hegemony over the subaltern classes. It is the expression of subaltern classes who want to educate themselves in the art of government and who have an interest in knowing all truths, even the unpleasant ones, and in avoiding the impossible deceptions of the upper class, and even more their own.

  • Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.

    Heart   Love Is   Roots  
    Alexander Lowen (1995). “Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life”, p.112, Penguin
  • Quran says do not abuse others' gods, they will abuse Allah. But most people do not believe in this... they feel their way is the only right one. This is to maintain religious hegemony.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring security.War can only generate monsters: bitterness, intolerance, fundamentalism, and the damaging denial of current hegemonies.The poor must be given reasons to live, not to kill or die.

    Country   Strong   War  
  • One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ... [and] when these federation of republics have finally grown into a world union of Soviet Socialist Republics uniting the whole of mankind under the hegemony of the international proletariat organized as a state.

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