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Quotes About Dominance

power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us.
~ Euripides
Most of us are content to exist and breed and fight for the right to do both, and the dominant idea, the foredoomed attest to control one's destiny, is reserved for the fortunate or unfortunate few.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
They stood an uncomfortable little group weighted down by Abe's gigantic presence: he lay athwart them like the wreck of a galleon, dominating with his presence his own weakness and self-indulgence, his narrowness and bitterness. All of them were conscious of the solemn dignity that flowed from him, of his achievement, fragmentary, suggestive and surpassed. But they were frightened at his surviving will, once a will to love, now become a will to die.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's a bad town unless you're on top of it
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I did not think- I was a battleground for the thoughts of many men; rather was I one of those desirable but impotent countries over which the great powers surge back and forth.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was a body capable of enormous leverage - a cruel body.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's up to us who are the dominant race to watch out or these other races will have control of things.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry Kissinger once claimed, "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac." As seductive as power can be, psychological studies have shown it deadens the sensitivity of those who wield it. In short, power kills empathy.
~ Fareed Zakaria
The highly unequal access to health care is part of a larger dynamic of a "pay-to-play" society, in which everything has become dominated by the market. Hospital executives and university presidents are seen not as societal leaders but as CEOs, and are paid to behave like them as well.
~ Fareed Zakaria
To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent. Enlarge your personality without including anything from the outside – asking nothing from others and imposing nothing on others, but being others when you need them. Reduce your necessities to a minimum, so as not to depend on anyone for anything. It's true that such a life is impossible in the absolute. But it's not impossible relatively.
~ Fernando Pessoa
To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.
~ Rick Wagoner
Nobody is faster than me.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
I hit hard, and I hit fast - much faster than Bisping, much harder than Bisping, and I have much better defence than Bisping.
~ Robert Whittaker
I'm the hardest puncher, the fastest fighter in my division.
~ Cody Garbrandt
I am in favour of a dictatorship.
~ Jair Bolsonaro
I love being the favourite of every competition.
~ Katie Taylor
It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Feature films seem geared toward very large budgets, action, broad comedy. That seems to dominate all year where it used to be relegated to summer.
~ Holly Hunter
Water's about everything. And when the federal government controls water, it controls everything - that's the problem.
~ Paul Gosar
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
~ Pierre Corneille
When I have the ball at my feet, I'm in different world.
~ Gabriel Jesus
Never let the other fellow set the agenda.
~ James Baker
I'm female. I'm human. Sometimes I dominate and sometimes I'm dominated.
~ Fallon Fox