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Quotes About Dominance

One of Sade's cruellest lessons is that tyranny is implicit in all privilege. My freedom makes you more unfree, if it does not acknowledge your freedom, also.
~ Angela Carter
Has anybody ever told you you're an evil woman?" -Reece "Who, me?" -Erin "Yes, you." -Reece "Li'l ole me?" -Erin "Sadistic goddess you, yes." -Reece "Do you want me to stop?" -Erin "Do you want me to hold you down and bang you like a screen door?" -Reece "Don't threaten the sadistic goddess, Reece." -Erin
~ Angela Knight
He enjoyed moderating all that bile and aggression. He was entertained, and it made him feel powerful. It wasn't just me he had a go at. He picked on anyone vulnerable.
~ Ann Cleeves
There are three main controllers of power here in Britain: the political establishment in Westminster, the BBC (MSM), and the Bank Of England.
~ Max Keiser
Through our own hard work and ingenuity, America has spent much of its history as the world's dominant economic power. But our dominance is not pre-ordained - history does not roll along on the wheels of inevitability.
~ Evan Bayh
Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!
~ Hermann Goering
With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.
~ Judd Rose
Badminton court is my territory and that's where I will do most of my talking.
~ Jwala Gutta
The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
~ Humphrey Bogart
Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.
~ F. Sionil Jose
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
~ Maria Callas
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
~ Abigail Adams
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
~ Nikita Khrushchev
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
~ Robert Frost
My belief is that the U.S. is looking at the world through a short-term lens of tariffs and elections, while China is looking at a 25-year plan of becoming the dominant global power.
~ John Layfield
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we'll have when this war is over. Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees.
~ Curt Siodmak
When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
~ Muhammad Ali
Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.
~ Anne Robinson
When you whisper about something, it's too big, and you can't get it under control and take control of it.
~ Joan Rivers
As of now, I am in control here in the White House.
~ Alexander Haig
The big guys, the big dogs, are going to own everything from the White House to the courthouse.
~ Brian Schweitzer
For great is truth, and shall prevail.
~ Thomas Brooks