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Quotes About Dominance

must never submit to animals.
~ Frank Herbert
Power attracts the psychotics. Always.
~ Frank Herbert
De?in controlul unui lucru numai acei ce-l pot distruge.
~ Frank Herbert
ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings. It's
~ Frank Herbert
bureaucracies always become voracious aristocracies after they attain commanding power.
~ Frank Herbert
Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality . . . and fall.
~ Frank Herbert
I must rule with eye and claw—as the hawk among lesser birds.
~ Frank Herbert
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles. —WORDS OF AN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHER (ATTRIBUTED BY HARQ AL-ADA TO ONE LOUIS VEUILLOT)
~ Frank Herbert
When I'm stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
~ Frank Herbert
The people who can destroy a thing, they control it
~ Frank Herbert
All governments needed to remain under suspicion in their time of power.
~ Frank Herbert
Hydraulic despotism: central control of an essential energy such as water, electricity, fuel, medicines, melange. . . Obey the central controlling power or the energy is shut off and you die!
~ Frank Herbert
A human can override any nerve in the body.
~ Frank Herbert
Behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: 'I feed on your energy.
~ Frank Herbert
A ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings.
~ Frank Herbert
I take his weapons away from him. Both of them.
~ Frank Miller
Give them nothing, but take from them everything.
~ Frank Miller
You don't get it son. This isn't a mudhole, it's an operating table and I am the surgeon. -Batman
~ Frank Miller
Without men to do your killing, the woman will have power over you!" "She doesn't know that!
~ Frank Peretti
Instead of profound redistributions of power, the new networks are captured by new monopolies, each more powerful and sophisticated than the one before it.
~ Franklin Foer
Like nineteenth-century European powers, each company does little to impinge on the other's sphere of influence, competing only on the fringes of empire.
~ Franklin Foer
In the realm of knowledge, monopoly and conformism are inseparable perils. Monopoly is the danger that a powerful firm will use its dominance to squash the diversity of competition. Conformism is the danger that one of those monopolistic firms, intentionally or inadvertently, will use its dominance to squash diversity of opinion and taste. Concentration is followed by homogenization.
~ Franklin Foer
The Hoover experiment, in the end, hardly realized the happy fantasies about the Engineer King. A very different version of this dream, however, has come to fruition, in the form of the CEOs of the big tech companies. We're not ruled by engineers, not yet, but they have become the dominant force in American life, the highest, most influential tier of our elite.
~ Franklin Foer
The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.
~ Franz Kafka