Quotes About Dominance

Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and no power is more absolute than parenthood.

power exercises over the civilian population.

It's not hard to figure out who has the power in any large gathering in our mediated culture: they are the ones with a microphone, their image projected larger than life above the crowd.

I actually believe the deepest form of power is creation, and that when power takes the form of coercion and violence, that is actually a diminishment and distortion of what it was meant to be.

I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down.

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

Bonhoeffer knew that when the church stops talking about Jesus, it has nothing to say. And when it assumes dominance, it's not talking about Jesus.

Moving between her thighs, he stretched out above her, then thrust into her. Once. Because, as he did everything, he acted without hesitation or apology to claim her entirely. Her eyes went wide and her breath caught. Holding her gaze, he pressed himself deeper, barely easing back before pressing deep again.

Because the only thing that made you part of any team was wearing the same color jersey. You made no friends. Teammates admired your game. Those who didn't envy you idolized you. But they didn't like you, and that was okay with you. You didn't give a damn so long as they carried out the plays you called.

The system that supports you can also be used to control you

So there you have it--my sorry tale. That's how something I though I controlled ended up controlling me.

It's a dominance thing, Lissa chimed in. Like dogs. He was making clear to you that he is the alpha dog. I looked at her. I mean, you're the alpha dog, she said quickly. But he doesn't know that yet. He's testing you. I don't want to be the alpha dog, I grumbled. I don't want to be a dog, period.

It is the ones who keep you in thrall to more than their snatches who command the houses and the gowns to go with them. And for that they have first to love themselves.

Power is the ability to influence and control.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing you hold down the adjoining.

The Dictator must have living crowds and also a crowd of corpses.

Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane.

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

Control the land and you control those who live on it. Own the land and you own those who live on it.

She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of the other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable.

aquel que ocupa el primer puesto, rara vez desempeña el papel principal.

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

Denn so ist die Liebe beschaffen, daß sie allein recht zu haben glaubt und alle anderen Rechte vor ihr verschwinden.