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Quotes About Dominance

Há homens nesses tronos, comandante, homens sem escrúpulos, ávidos de poder, que poriam em perigo nações inteiras para satisfazer o seu desejo de supremacia
~ Robyn Young
Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. THE PARTY SLOGAN, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
~ Rod Dreher
In an America that now runs on the internet, five companies—Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google—have an almost incalculable influence over public and private life.
~ Rod Dreher
Victory over Athens simply replaced a much-resented Athenian empire with a Spartan one that would soon be resented
~ Roderick Beaton
to become the most powerful state in the region.
~ Roderick Beaton
Sparta, by contrast, concentrated its power on land.
~ Roderick Beaton
Thebes had gained the upper hand, for joining forces with the enslaved helots of Messenia
~ Roderick Beaton
It has always been the way of the world that the weaker is kept down by the stronger.
~ Roderick Beaton
To make an example of them, Alexander had them sent back to Macedonia in chains
~ Roderick Beaton
Of the Melian population the Athenians executed all the grown men
~ Roderick Beaton
Quiere imponer su mundo y evitar que haya cambios.
~ Roger Bartra
Instantly Mehmet had clarified the practice of Ottoman succession, which he was later to codify as a law of fratricide: "whichever of my sons inherits the sultan's throne, it behooves him to kill his brother in the interest of the world order.
~ Roger Crowley
He that has the Longer Sword, shall never want, either Lawyers, or Divines to Defend his Claim.
~ Roger L'Estrange
One person could run a small state, if they were strong and angry enough. But the USA was too big for that.
~ Roger Levy
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
~ Roland Barthes
She would bring him back to us as docile as a sheep. 'Women,' I concluded rather bitterly, 'have at their command certain means of persuasion which the best- organized police forces do not possess.
~ Romain Gary
C'est horrible de vivre une époque ou au mot sentiment, on vous répond sentimentalisme. Il faudra bien pourtant qu'un jour vienne où l'affectivité sera reconnue comme le plus grand des sentiments et rejettera l'intellect dominateur.
~ Romain Gary
Pagaliau mes per?m?me pasaul? ? savo rankas, ir kiekvienas apverstas tankas atrod? kaip parblokšto dievo griau?iai.
~ Romain Gary
Religiosity is generally a characteristic of situations when there is a fear that the dominant position held by the followers of a religion is beginning to decline, and therefore has to be publicized where possible.
~ Romila Thapar
On a universal scale the civilized were the colonizers and the uncivilized were the colonized.
~ Romila Thapar
Size me up and get goosebumps, boys. I'm the widowmaker and the slayer of jungles, the mean-eyed harbinger of desolation! I've ripped a catamount asunder and sprinkled his fragments in my stew; one screech from me makes vultures fly, one glance puts blisters on grizzly bears, devastation rides on my every breath! Where is that stately stag to stamp his hoof or rap his antlers to these proclamations! Where is the mangy lion what will lick the salt off my name!
~ Ron Hansen
If somebody wants to compete, I'll just pull out enough to win.
~ Ron Jeremy
The composition of the oligarchy of government [...] emerges as the dominant theme of political history [...] ; it is something real and tangible, whatever may be the name or theory of the constitution.
~ Ronald Syme
In all this flurry of false scientism, the central question went unaddressed: if the possession of a penis and outsize brain were the distinguishing marks of the lords of creation, why was the world not rules by whales?
~ Rosalind Miles