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Quotes About Dominance

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.
~ Mike Tyson
It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0.
~ Vahid Halilhodzic
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
~ Erich Fromm
Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.
~ Peggy McIntosh
There is only one right in the world and that right is one's own strength.
~ Adolf Hitler
About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.
~ Jane Elliott
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
~ Thomas More
Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.
~ Friedrich Ratzel
The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.
~ Howard Thurman
A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear from us, without resistance, our natural, undisputed rights.
~ Polybius
Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
~ Joseph Conrad
In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness.
~ Roman Dmowski
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
~ Mencius
The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.
~ Hannah Arendt
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
~ Meir Kahane
O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
~ William Shakespeare
Arrogance follows distribution strength.
~ Henry Blodget
The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue.
~ Mao Zedong
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
~ Tacitus
That was Pele's strength - holding people off with his arm.
~ Ron Atkinson