Quotes About Dominance

Yes, I am cruel—since you take so much delight in that word-and am I not entitled to be so? Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

It is better to be feared than loved.

The question is, which is to be master? That's all. They've a temper, some of them. Particularly verbs. Oh, they're the proudest! Adjectives, eh, you can do anything with, but not verbs however.

Women who have power are always feared.

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

No one ever owns a cat," he corrected her. "You share a common habitation on a basis of equal rights and mutual respect . . . although somehow the cat always comes out ahead of the deal. Siamese particularly have a way of getting the upper hand.

I'm not having sex with you. Not willingly. If you starve me, strangle me, whip me or tie me to the bed, it'll be rape, which you said you wouldn't do. I draw the line at fucking a psycho kidnapping dickwad who makes me strip, kneel, crawl and call him Master.

Humans colonizing and conquering others have a propensity for this, for burning behind them what they cannot possess or control, as if their conflicts are not with themselves and their own way of being, but with the land itself.

He had to give it to nature, to the universe: it kicked ass.

That was the thing about cats; even the scruffiest one was convinced of its innate superiority.

table, a dominant position that

Stay there," he rasped, "or I swear to God, you'll still have the imprint of my hand on your ass when you're ninety!" Joellen

Bad people don't want to deal with the powerful. They prey on the weak.

Man can progress as much as we want. Mother Nature still owns our ass.

The coercive power of government is always a beacon to those who want to dominate others -- summoning the worst dregs of society to Washington to use that power to impose their will upon others.

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely with, and limited to, the dominant group's domain.

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

In America, we are living in a society which is moving more and more toward an oligarchic form of society where government is dominated heavily by big-money interests.