Quotes About Dominance

It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.

The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.

A bully is one who forces you to laugh at his jokes, even if they are not jokes. That is how you know he is a bully. A

She realizes: the man's power is to intimidate, to make you ashamed. But your power over him is the power of laughter.

In marriage as in tennis, one player is inevitably superior to the other.

always, you want to impress them: men of authority)

For that was mom's trump card: she was the mother, and so possessed a mysterious and unquestioned authority. Dad was the boss, but Mom was the power.

When you said Please to those who...had no option but to obey, what were you really saying?

Eagles are not intimidated by the heights and forceful winds that other birds may fear. Instead, they take advantage of the gales, flying into the wind, setting their wings so the gusts only lift them higher. Nor do eagles waste time battling with other birds that are pests to them. When attacked, they simply mount up higher and higher until they reach an altitude in which their enemies cannot survive.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, also enlightened me: "To seize by the throat with teeth and shake or mangle, as one animal

He grabbed something off the floor and held it in front of his hips as he stood up. She drank in the sight of him: The tattooed slave bands around his wrists and neck, the plug in his left earlobe, his black eyes, his skull-trimmed hair. His body was as starkly lean as she remembered, all striated muscles and hard cut veins. And he threw off raw power like a scent.

Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?

every time you surrender willingly, like this, you make me feel like a king who has conquered. Yet when I conquer you against your will, you make me feel like a defeated beggar?

He smiled. 'Now I have you in a cage.And whenever I want you,I'll take you out, and when I've done with you, I'll set you back in.

Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

History is written by the victors.

Pharaoh is clearly a metaphor. He embodies and represents raw, absolute, worldly power. He is, like Pilate after him, a stand-in for the whole of the empire. As the agent of the "empire of force," he reappears in many different personae.9

The outcome is to delegitimize and deconstruct the kings in effective ways in order to show that while they occupy the forms of power, they lack the substance of power.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

People religious enough to want to live in a world dominated by faith were also religious enough to guard their souls against doctrinal error, which logically meant suppressing, persecuting, or killing those who might corrupt even minor details of doctrine. 

power becomes a slave to passion so easily, and to an unacknowledged passion easiest of all.

For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.