Quotes About Dominance

Words are the verbal embodiment of power.

Philosophers call this state of isolation and disconnection "species loneliness"—a deep, unnamed sadness stemming from estrangement from the rest of Creation, from the loss of relationship. As our human dominance of the world has grown, we have become more isolated, more lonely when we can no longer call out to our neighbors. It's no wonder that naming was the first job the Creator gave Nanabozho.

Coins and precious metals, food, slaves, and luxury goods flowed to Rome; little came back except tax collectors and soldiers.

Today, little has changed in European religious life. State churches still dominate all of Europe's 'Protestant' nations, with the negative consequences that will be seen in the next chapter. Church attendance remains low everywhere. And magic is still widely embraced!

All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid.

When the Communist Party took over Eastern Europe, its first work was to destroy the civil associations that it did not control.

Power is like money... You can usually get it if you're competent and it's the only thing you want in life.

What an enormous chutzpah you possess, I told him. What makes you better than the rest of us, and more fit to rule? The fact that I was able to occupy the throne, he replied. Try and take it.

Now you know what an absolute monarchy is she explained to Bill. You can see how power corrupts. I was corrupt before I had power, Random said, and rich is better.

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, age-old pastime of humanity.

What is a hero? The one who has the last word.

While extremely powerful, they were also inhibited in exercising that power.

his massive shadow dominated his son's life.

Between February 17 and March 28, 1872—between the first rumors of the SIC and the time it was scuttled—Rockefeller swallowed up twenty-two of his twenty-six Cleveland competitors. During

but Rockefeller started at the top, believing that if he could crack his strongest competitor first, it would have a tremendous psychological impact.

It is hard to exaggerate the power that Pierpont accrued.

You see, this scheme is bound to work. It means an absolute control by us of the oil business.

Republican ire about the Federalist dominance of the judiciary became especially strident after Adams nominated John Marshall as chief justice of the Supreme Court in late January 1801.

Rockefeller never passed up a chance to exploit a legitimate advantage against his beleaguered rivals.

He tried almost from the beginning of our partnership to dominate and override me," he said of Clark.

Standard might soon be in a position to eliminate their oil traffic at whim.

winning at any cost.

This policy, which kept colleagues from defecting and forming competing companies, was one of many expensive extravagances that accompanied the creation of the monopoly.

Having outsmarted the largest railroad, Rockefeller had acquired a stranglehold on the three major roads, and his taming of the imperious Tom Scott guaranteed that no railroad president would ever dare to tangle with him again.