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Quotes About Supremacy

I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due to the brain's capacity to make use of the information conveyed to it by a narrow band of visible light rays.
~ John Wyndham
I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due to the brain's capacity to make use of the information conveyed to it by a narrow band of visible light rays. His civilization, all that he had achieved or might achieve, hung upon his ability to perceive that range of vibrations from red to violet. Without that, he was lost.
~ John Wyndham
I'm steamroller baby, I'm 'bout to roll over you".
~ Elvis Presley
One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
~ Emil Cioran
Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.
~ Emil Cioran
But in all cases it must be remembered that a political combination of the lower classes, as such and for their own objects, is an evil of the first magnitude; that a permanent combination of them would make them (now that so many of them have the suffrage) supreme in the country; and that their supremacy, in the state they now are, means the supremacy of ignorance over instruction and of numbers over knowledge.
~ bagehot walter xvi
fight authority with authority
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
A Khaled record is always the best.
~ DJ Khaled
There's a handful of exceptionally good companies, but there's always one company that's the best.
~ Chamath Palihapitiya
There are 7 billion people in the world, but there's only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that's me.
~ Tyson Fury
The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s.
~ John Lewis Gaddis
I'm here to be the greatest.
~ Tory Lanez
Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
When you're constantly involved in domination, what you're really looking for is constant highs.
~ Joel Edgerton
There are women, returned my uncle, some of them of the most admired, who are slaves to a demoniacal love of power. The very pleasure of their consciousness consists in the knowledge that they have power--not power to do things, but power to make other people do things. [Uncle; Flight of the Shadow]
~ George MacDonald
Power is not a means; it is an end.
~ George Orwell
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?
~ George Orwell
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?
~ George Orwell
My lord consigned the doctor and his words of wisdom to a place of great heat
~ Georgette Heyer
The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
~ Alexander Graham Bell
Those who rule data will rule the entire world.
~ Masayoshi Son
I've been world champion and number one at the same time, which is a brilliant feeling.
~ Neil Robertson
I just knew that I wanted world domination. I knew that with anything I do, I want to be the greatest. That entails being great everywhere. Not just in America - everywhere.
~ Stefflon Don