Animal Oppression and Human Violence Quotes

“The wealthy exert a commanding influence over the state through virtually unlimited political campaign contributions, armies of lobbyists, the revolving door that shuffles former government officials into corporate jobs as consultants and lobbyists (and moves bankers into positions in financial regulatory agencies), and the aforementioned control of news and media outlets that defines both the subjects of public discourse and the range of acceptable opinion.”
― David A. Nibert, Animal Oppression and Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict

“Prejudice against other animals arises from socially promulgated beliefs that reflect a speciesist ideology, created to legitimate economic exploitation or elimination of a competitor. Oppressive practices have deep roots in economic and political arrangements. Therefore, for injustices to be addressed effectively, it is not enough to try to change socially acquired prejudice or to focus only on moral change. The structure of the oppressive system itself must be challenged and changed.”
― David A. Nibert, Animal Oppression and Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict

“As long as the capitalist system is dominant, the people of the world will be embroiled in endless crisis, turmoil, conflict, struggle, and deprivation, conditions that will prevent the national and international discussion and cooperation necessary to achieve global justice.”
― David A. Nibert, Animal Oppression and Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict

“the most insidious oppressions are those that so insinuate themselves into the fabric of our lives and into the recesses of our minds that we don’t even realize they are acting upon us.”
― David A. Nibert, Animal Oppression and Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict

“To make slaves more amenable to control, they were often separated at birth from their families. And, like domesticated animals, many were deliberately kept in a state of infantile dependence that inflicted a sort of psychic amputation on them—they remained like children, and their helplessness made them easier to control. Both animals and human slaves could be controlled best if kept economically and psychically dependent on their owners.”
― David A. Nibert, Animal Oppression and Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict