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Quotes About Dominant

The Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci used the term 'cultural hegemony' to describe the way in which ideas and concepts which benefit a dominant class are universalized. They become norms, adopted whole and unexamined, which shape our thinking. Perhaps we suffer from agricultural hegemony: what is deemed to be good for farmers or landowners is deemed, without question or challenge, to be good for everyone.
~ George Monbiot
Terrific. A bisexual dominant vampire with kidnapping expertise. Man, for so many reasons she shouldn't feel like she did about him.
~ J.R. Ward
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
~ George Soros
Shaq was a great physical specimen. I mean, 7 foot, 350 pounds. There wasn't anybody like him.
~ David Robinson
Finally, in graphic novels and video games, SF is, of course, dominant.
~ Neal Stephenson
My mum is deeply, deeply a man's woman, a man's muse. Maybe because I'm a kid from the '80s, I'm a bit more dominant. I wanted to be the muse and the director also. I wanted to be the man and the woman.
~ Lou Doillon
He was just so intimidating and darkly sensual, filling the room with his presence until she could barely think straight.
~ Christine Feehan
But architecture will no more be the social, collective, dominant art. The great poem, the great work of humankind will never again be built but printed.
~ Victor Hugo
What seems to be one of the disasters of our time is that we all appear to agree that the nation-state is the norm... Whether the state be Marxist or capitalist, it makes no difference. The dominant ideology is that of sovereignty.
~ Jacques Ellul
The practice of Detachment encourages the positive aspects of your life to become dominant, while providing a clear path for the negative aspects to recede.
~ Gary Hopkins
My women are always victorious.
~ Helmut Newton
Justify, you can walk up to him and he might give you three, four, five seconds and then he's done with you. He'll try to bite your head off. It's not in a mean way. He's just a big, tough horse. He'll run you out of the stall.
~ Bob Baffert
We live in a culture where European beauty standards are dominant.
~ A'Lelia Bundles
Ahh, you're a man used to getting his own way." "Always," he said in a husky growl.
~ Maya Banks
Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
~ Terence McKenna
Contradictions among the dominant classes and fractions - or in other words, the relationship of forces within the power bloc - are precisely what makes it necessary for the unity of the bloc to be organized by the State.
~ Nicos Poulantzas
In a capitalist society the mass media are capitalist institutions. The fact that these institutions reflect the ideology of dominant economic interests is hardly surprising.
~ Noam Chomsky
Neoconservatism in all its pomp conceived - in the Project for a New American Century - that, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world could be remade in the American image, that the previous bipolar world could be replaced by a unipolar one in which the U.S. was the dominant arbiter of global and regional affairs.
~ Martin Jacques
I think that every minority in the United States of America knows everything about the dominant culture. From the time you can think, you are bombarded with images from TV, film, magazines, newspapers.
~ Spike Lee
I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education.
~ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...
~ Maquita Donyel Irvin
Thoughts are king, Trixie. King
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Most communities attempting to survive under irresistible pressure from a dominant culture develop a myth that allows them to believe they are somehow a special people. Chosen. Favored by the gods.
~ Orson Scott Card
She was a strange, hostile, dominant thing.
~ D. H. Lawrence