Quotes About Dominance

The big problem with power, of course, is obsession. Once you get some of it and feel it, it dominates your whole life and it's all you can think about. That doesn't have to happen.

Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

You either ride life or it rides you. Your mental attitude determines who is 'rider' and who is 'horse.'

I am so territorial, that [from the start] I just felt like whatever I was gonna do I was gonna write it myself, its my personal preference to always be in control of everything I do in life.

A dominant wolf's desire to protect was a strong instinct- Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inch, and he's take over the world- my life, if I let him. Mercy

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.

Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

The persecuting spirit has its origin morally in the disposition of man to domineer over his fellow creatures; intellectually, in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.

Control is made of knowing what we have, and what we want,' said the daemon, and I felt an echo of its satisfaction shiver through me. 'Power is having something that someone else wants and cannot have.

when the room goes silent, someone has spoken with authority...

We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers.

Take charge of your life or someone else will!

The aim of states is to be the biggest and baddest dude on the block because if you're the biggest and baddest dude on the block, then it is highly unlikely that any other state will challenge you simply because you're so powerful.

That's why the Emperor needs an Empire, Kanan. It's like a space slug, whose only function is to stay alive. It's got to consume, and consume, and consume.

The statement that Abraham's descendants shall "possess the gate of their enemies" is the promise of spiritual and cultural dominance of the godly covenant people.

Century after century, we have prosecuted our insane conflicts from atop their backs, resting on their sturdy necks when we grew weary, eating their flesh when we were starving, disemboweling them and crawling inside their bodies when we were freezing.

A menudo he pensado que la locura es un poco como la noche, debido a las distintas formas en que se extendió durante varios años por mi corazón y mi mente, unas veces con dureza o rapidez, otras con lentitud y sutileza, de modo que apenas era consciente de que estaba dominándome.

To the connected and ruthless flow the spoils. -From Counternarratives

But it was the discovery of gold in California in 1849 that caused the clipper ships to dominate travel on the high seas.

But blaming Islam is a simple answer, easier and less controversial than re-examining the core political issues and grievances that resonate in much of the Muslim world: the failures of many Muslim governments and societies, some aspects of U.S. foreign policy representing intervention and dominance, Western support for authoritarian regimes, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, or support for Israel's military battles with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. (p. 136-137)

What kind of world results if the power to dominate and control others, inflicting enormous suffering in the process, is sanctioned by a divine being who can at the same time redeem that suffering and release the perpetrators and their victims from that world's evils?