Quotes About Dominance

You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.

You're scared of what you can't control

We're all as susceptible to the lure of power.

Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have -- there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin)

In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.

You keep life on a short leash." "What's that supposed to mean?" "You're scared of what you can't control.

If you have a pack establishing dominance in an area that involves such physical exertion, you're sucking the life out of the opposition.

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs -- a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days.

you cannot operate on the sea during war unless you have command of the sea, the air above it, and the depths beneath it.

There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.

It is a sort of managerial aristocracy that quietly determines what we buy and how we vote and what we deem as good or bad. "They govern us," the author writes, "by their qualities of natural leadership, their ability to supply needed ideas and by their key position in the social structure.

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

All republics that acquire supremacy over other nations, rule them selfishly and oppressively. There is no exception to this in either ancient or modern times. Carthage, Rome, Venice, Genoa, Florence, Pisa, Holland, and Republican France, all tyrannized over every province and subject state where they gained authority.

Here is the situation of Man: the more power he claims for himself, the less power he has.

Men without an organized system of thought will always be at the mercy of men who have one.

A chicken benefits not from her eggs; the honeybees cannot enjoy their honey; similarly, a writer earns nothing from its writing; and visionary one receives not a profit from its vision. However, the dominant figures stay to contribute little support for the continuation of a selfish and monopolized system.

A right to veto surpasses and prevails all rules and laws that honor the judiciary and democracy.

The wolves in the uniform with the license to do that.

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

In that little pocket-size world of his, he was the absolute master.

According to yoga philosophy, the human personality is a constant interplay of these three elements – inertia, energy, and harmony. All three are always present, but one tends to be dominant at any given time – in a day, throughout a stage of life, over a life itself

The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.

I had taken away my own time and added it to his to make him more powerful.