What do you think of and how do you interpret this quote?

Question

Unless this saying was buried deep inside my sub-concious somewhere? I believe I just came up with it in respone to another question. Anyway here it is.

"Beat a man down and he will hate you forever, make him feel less than a man and he will obey you forever"

What do you think of and how do you interpret this quote?

Answer 1

Its the slave idea.

If you take a free man and beat him until he submits, he will despise you.

But if you take a man that has never known freedom and convince him that you are superior, he will see fit to serve you.

Answer 2

I think that it is incorrect. Either one will make someone hate. Both are forms of violence. One is emotionally and the other physical. The emotional violence may take longer for the man to get to hatred, but he will reach that level. He will obey for a while, but not forever. The opposite is true also. You can make a man obey through beating for a while, but the hatred is still there.

I would call the quote invalid based on history of man.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I was fine with the first portion, the second half of the statement lacks any sense for me. I was never interested in loyalty, power or obedience, so I wasn't clear on the significance of this. Further, making someone "feel less than a man" is going to have the opposite effect of what you suggested.

Answer 5

So true! I like, I like!

It shows so poetically a terrible truth. Hurting someone physically will make them rebel (either physically or just mentally as in 'hating'). Hurting someone mentally will make them weak and defenseless (making it easier for one to rule over them).

Very deep...

Answer 6

Make him feel less than a man as in bring him to his realization of a humility his own; not of your will.
Makes sense to me.

Answer 7

Sounds like good military philosophy to me.

Answer 8

when you attack someone physically, they will revenge upon you, but when you attack someone emotionally and make him/her feel that you are superior and that they are of no comparison to you, they will always listen to you and think that you are right.

besides abusing jews, hitler also verbally attacked them so that they feel as if they were less human, leading hitler easily dominating them.

Answer 9

deep....r u a poet? make someone fell weak 2 show ur strength and that person will only hate u, put someone intheir place nd show ur strengthnd they will admire you? idk

Answer 10

sounds demeaning.