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Quotes About Domination

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
~ George Orwell
his army to plunder, and sold the entire population for slaves.
~ George Rawlinson
Time is the tyrant of the body.
~ Anonymous
There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.
~ Mary Parker Follett
in the first place, Majesty, a pyramid is power. It is repression,force,and wealth. But it is just as much: domination of the rabble; the narrowing of its mind; the weakening of its will; monotony; and waste. O my Pharaoh, it is your most reliable guardian. Your secret police. Your army. Your fleet. Your harem. The higher it is, the tinier your subjects will seem. And the smaller your subjects, the more you rise, o Majesty, to your full height.
~ Ismail Kadare
Both climate change and extinction are results of our tyranny over the nonhuman world and our domination of, and exploitation of, whole categories of each other - and those, in turn, are clearly linked to agriculture, the cattle-industrial complex, capitalism.
~ Lydia Millet
James Glass, a political scientist at the University of Maryland who has studied the delusions of schizophrenia, writes, "Delusion provides a certain, often unbreakable identity, and its absolute character can maneuver the self into an unyielding position. In this respect, it is the internal mirror of political authoritarianism, the tyrant inside the self … an internal domination as deadly as any external tyranny.
~ Sylvia Nasar
The heathen could only be eliminated as a force if their culture was completely erased.
~ Tariq Ali
And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.
~ Fredric Jameson
The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.
~ Vladimir Putin
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
~ Ansel Adams
It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.
~ Strom Thurmond
Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.
~ H. L. Mencken
And, obviously, not with ideas of control or power or domination, for these have nothing to do with Love. But…may sex be used for purposes of simple personal gratification? The surprising answer is yes—because "personal gratification" is just another word for Self Love.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Men must either be caressed or else destroyed.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.
~ Christopher Hitchens
You ever met one of those guys who, in a totally calm and composed way, can scare the shit out of you? Like an MMA fighter, or the fat Kardashian sister who married Lamar Odom?
~ Tucker Max
Was this not the manifestation of the most perfect love, such as he professed to his Lady, loving from afar, renouncing the pride of domination?
~ Umberto Eco
While the popular understanding of anarchism is of a violent, anti-State movement, anarchism is a much more subtle and nuanced tradition then a simple opposition to government power. Anarchists oppose the idea that power and domination are necessary for society, and instead advocate more co-operative, anti-hierarchical forms of social, political and economic organisation.
~ L. Susan Brown
If in this narrative I have not yet paid Queen Sophia adequate consideration, particularly given the unrelenting domination the woman would soon claim over every single element of my life, I offer this simple yet honest explanation: for fifteen unbroken years, my mother had toiled to protect me from the woman. It is remarkable, as I reflect upon my childhood, how utterly unaware I was of this situation while it transpired, the truth coming to my notice only in despondent hindsight.
~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Como todos os deicidas, o Cientista é, na sua essência, tentador. Adula no homem a sua própria soberba, e domina-o prometendo-lhe a dominação.
~ Giovanni Papini
I think that we have successfully said that rape is not sex, it's violence. But what we have not successfully said is that pornography is not erotica. Porne means female slaves. Eros has an idea of love and mutual pleasure and free choice. I fear that pornography is taking over sex when in fact it's way more about domination.
~ Gloria Steinem