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Quotes About Dominance

Power makes all things right. That is my first law, and my last. That is the only law that I acknowledge.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Kill me?' The Bloody-Nine laughed louder than ever. 'I do the killing, fool!
~ Joe Abercrombie
Very well, Practical Vitari, if you really can't resist me. You'll have to go on top, though, if you don't mind.
~ Joe Abercrombie
A King must win. The rest is dust.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Any man can do what he likes. Right, Splitfoot?' 'Right, Chief.' 'Just as long as it's exactly what I fucking tell 'em to do.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Exceptionalism" is a shared self-description of imperial forms and . . . every empire imagines itself an exception.
~ Ann Laura Stoler
An excursion through the politics of conceptual labor is the meat of the chapters that follow. The political effects and practices that imperial formations impose and induce are its marrow.
~ Ann Laura Stoler
a focus on the "supremacy of reason" as the master trope of colonial critique has displaced the enduring affective work that such rationalities perform.
~ Ann Laura Stoler
I am the head cookie bitch and this is my party.
~ Ann Pearlman
The act of driving the car made him feel he was a powerful being who could conquer the world. Up over hills, fast down on the other side. It was like playing god and commanding everything within hearing to awaken and listen to him. The people sleeping in the white farmhouses were at the mercy of the sound of his engine roaring past in the night.
~ Ann Petry
Come to me." Stupid to haggle over dominance when they both knew she'd surrendered. "No, come to me." "That's my braw lassie." His smile expressed unfettered admiration. "You know, it would be easy enough to meet in the middle." This
~ Anna Campbell
And just remember Comrades this one thing: the most important thing you have is power! Hang on to power at all costs! Without it, you are nothing!" He didn't mention the democracy demonstrations and the fact that the Soviets were backing away from us,' Herr Bohnsack says, 'but it was clear he must, at some level, have felt the end coming.
~ Anna Funder
So, fuck you, fifty, I own you. You're my bitch.
~ Annabelle Gurwitch
Every master loves to fuck a slave. It is a law of nature, or maybe culture.
~ Annalee Newitz
the power men everywhere wield over women . . . has become a model for every other form of exploitation and illegal control' [Adrienne Rich]
~ Annamarie Jagose
Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."3 Strictly defined, a totalitarian regime is one that bans all institutions apart from those it has officially approved. A totalitarian regime thus has one political party, one educational system, one artistic creed, one centrally planned economy, one unified media, and one moral code.
~ Anne Applebaum
the German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky wrote that "absolute power is a structure, not a possession.
~ Anne Applebaum
They didn't just want to oppress us: they wanted us to thank them for it."81
~ Anne Applebaum
Why couldn't they just give the human female a bag of money and then pee on the building so that everyone would know it was theirs?
~ Anne Bishop
Why couldn't they just give the human female a bag of money and then pee on the building so that everyone would know it was theirs? This
~ Anne Bishop
Do you know what happened to the dinosaurs? The Others is what happened to the dinosaurs.
~ Anne Bishop
Having right over others is something shameful. It's using force.
~ Anne Holm
Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.
~ Anne Robinson
The truth of Voltaire's observation offers itself perpetually," he told Bellini, that every man in Europe "must be either the hammer or the anvil.
~ Annette Gordon-Reed