Quotes About Dominance

stringing up rival kings on trees, rejoicing in piles of heads – there was an element of childish glee in all of that.

Powerful men don't take well to rejection. Rage could result. There

It's all about sex and territory, which are what will finish us off in the long run.

All of these men are thinking mostly about ruling and rulers. Who should rule, and how. Who should have power, how they should get it, and how they should use it.

Dominant people, it appears, use snap judgements and conform to received wisdom more than do the less dominant. Those who need power, and those who have it, think differently.

Thucydides said, "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

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Arrogance and callousness for the conquerors, bitter endurance and hatred for the conquered.

the way small Mrs. Tarleton bullied her grown sons and laid her riding crop on their backs if the occasion seemed to warrant it.

The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.

The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no limits. It was invincible. It was to be conquered and mastered like the Earth herself.

Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control.

After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.

Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time. But now that it's the opposite it's twice upon a time.

Given a short time with a psycho-politician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind.

The only time the white man is brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when he will oppress you, when you will submit to him.

The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

Roger Federer certainly is my claim to be the best of all time - if there is such a thing. With Rafael Nadal not far behind.

That was such an important time for us, as a team. It was our second gold medal in a row, following Salt Lake City, and really established ourselves as the best team in the world.