Dora Marsden: verschil tussen versies

| tekst = We are one another's daily food. We take what we can get of what we want. We can be kept out of "territory" but not because we have an compunction about invading. Where the limiting line falls is decided in the event, turning on the will, whim and power of those who are devoured and devourers at one and the same time. Life is feasting and conflict: that is its zest. The cry for peace is the weariness of those who are too faint-hearted to live.

| bron = {{aut|Dora Marsden}}, ''The Illusion of Anarchism'', The Egoist, 15 september 1914.

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| tekst = The fact to be borne in mind is that whther one "should" or "should not," the strong natures never do. The powerful allow "respect for other's interests" to remain the exclusive foible of the weak. The tolerance they have for others "interests rests" is not "respect" but indifference. The importance of furthering one's own interests does not leave sufficient energy really to accord much attention to those of others. It is only when others' interests thrust themselves intrusively across one's own that indifference vanishes: because they have become possible allies or obstacles. If the latter, the fundamental lack of respect swiftly defines itself.

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| tekst = Using the concepts of master and servant, Marsden argues that women as a category have demonstrated in the past little but the attributes of the "servant," while the qualities of the "master," such as imposing law, setting standards, establishing rights and duties, acquiring property, have been relegated to men. Women have been the "followers, believers, the law abiding, the moral, the conventionally admiring" whose virtues are those of a subordinate class. Women have served as functionaries and servants. They live by the "borrowed precepts" issued by men. Societal hierarchies ensure that some men must be servants, but all women are servants and all the masters are men. What fundamentally charracterizes women is their servile condition.

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| tekst = Part of what enables domination, or the stratification of rich and poor, powerful and weak, is that the rich and powerful have been able to convince others to renounce themselves and their interests. History and society are the domains where the rich and powerful assert and fulfill their interests while proselyting the poor and weak about liberty, rights, and respect.

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| tekst = The political choice for women is to either "sink back" into the historical status of propertylessness and powerlessness, or to "stand recognized as 'master' among other 'masters.'"

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