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Quotes About Dominance

I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.
~ Robert Jordan
I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.
~ Robert Jordan
The more power a man held, the more likely he was to be an idiot with it.
~ Robert Jordan
Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.
~ Robert Jordan
The trumpets of war shall sound at his footsteps, the ravens feed at his voice, and he shall wear a crown of swords.
~ Robert Jordan
They want to own the world, but it seems you already own a people.
~ Robert Jordan
It is better to be the hammer than the nail.
~ Robert Jordan
we are the hare, and it is the hounds who dictate the chase.
~ Robert Jordan
She held herself with a grace and air of command that made him feel awkward and stumble-footed. She was barely tall enough to come up to his chest, but her presence was such that her height seemed the proper one, and he felt ungainly in his tallness.
~ Robert Jordan
El hombre es el animal que se somete más fácilmente a un yugo, y el más difícil de mantener sujeto a él. Incluso cuando él lo escoge libremente.
~ Robert Jordan
Being in control wasn't so much about the power you had, but the power you implied that you had.
~ Robert Jordan
Point me in the right direction, and shut the fuck up. I'm the one calling the shots now. Fall in line or fall down a fucking well.
~ Robert Kirkman
It's not the meek who are inheriting the earth, Jason, it's the corruptors
~ Robert Ludlum
laws of economics. It creates aggressive competition within its own ranks, but does its best to remove all outside competitors. That's what multi-nationals are all about
~ Robert Ludlum
There's support for the idea—three of my favorites are that (a) forcing depressed people to smile makes them feel better; (b) instructing people to take on a more "dominant" posture makes them feel more so (lowers stress hormone levels); and (c) muscle relaxants decrease anxiety ("Things are still awful, but if my muscles are so relaxed that I'm dribbling out of this chair, things must be improving"). Nonetheless
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
There's support for the idea—three of my favorites are that (a) forcing depressed people to smile makes them feel better; (b) instructing people to take on a more "dominant" posture makes them feel more so (lowers stress hormone levels); and (c) muscle relaxants decrease
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
On her way back she thought she noticed that everything in the world was secretly contrived for beatings. It was just a thought that went through her mind. Parents their child. The state its convicts. The military its soldiers. The rich the poor. The coachman his horse. People went walking with big dogs on leashes. Everyone would rather intimidate another person than come to an understanding with him.
~ Robert Musil
Morals can't function normally because morals have been declared intellectually illegal by the subject object metaphysics that dominates present social thought
~ Robert Pirsig
What sort of future is coming up from behind I don't really know. But the past, spread out ahead, dominates everything in sight.
~ Robert Pirsig
Testosterone makes us more willing to do what it takes to attain and maintain status...In our world riddled with male violence, the problem isn't that testosterone can increase levels of aggression. The problem is the frequency with which we reward aggression.
~ Robert Sapolsky
Land was wealth 300 years ago. So the person who owned the land owned the wealth. Then, it was factories and production, and America rose to dominance. The industrialist owned the wealth. Today, it is information. And the person who has the most timely information owns the wealth.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
He who has the gold makes the rules.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Many people only manage people they feel smarter than and they have power over. Many
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
The paycheck is one of the most powerful tools ever created by man. The person who signs the paycheck has the power to enslave another person's body, mind, and soul." He
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki