Quotes About Dominance

The Americans will see you. God knows why, but they will.' 'You have a way of making it sound as though they're above the law,' said Troy. 'What you don't grasp, Troy, is that they run things now.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Methinks Sir Robert should have carried his Monarchical Power one step higher and satisfied the World, that Princes might eat their Subjects too.

Ego sum Attila, flagellum Dei" (Ben de Attila, Tanr?'n?n k?rbac?/I am Attila, the scourge of God)

We'd thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn't have to walk into a place to invade it.

Electra is a small person who steps on others to make herself feel big

As long as a single center has a monopoly on the use of coercion, one has a state rather than a self-governed society.

Since the bigger gorillas leave chimps only a fraction of the quantity of food bonobos get, each chimp must fight ferociously to survive, including killing other chimpanzees

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

I will make you shorter by the head.

Man has created God in his image which gives him dominance over everything else: Birds, lions, trees and women.

Whichever group is in ascension at a given moment is, historically speaking, both unlikely to acknowledge the existence of abuses or bias, and also to justify the bias on any grounds they can - social, biological, what have you.

Jane, he realized now, with an old familiar chill, had never lost her grip on his leash.

Like queen bees awakened in the hive, one of them would consume the rest. It all came down to who was going to be the last demiurge standing.

Was one head dominant, or did they serve different functions?

Without women in a position to protect them, gentle males would find it rough going in a society dominated by stud males and hormonally driven aggression.

He stank of something bitter and sharp. His thumb moved across the scar on Cathoair's cheek, a sickening caress, and Cahey somehow got his hands up on Mingan's shoulders, and shoved. Mingan kneed him in the solar plexus, so if not for the Wolf's grip on his neck, Cathoair would have gone to the ground.

Fyodor Stephanovich dominated the room with the careless ease that one would expect of a Prince among wolves.

In the end, the wolf could own them both. Both on the same instant, possess them, prove at last who it was whose weakness brought down the Last Day, and the fall of all that was.

I used to make people like you as servants.

The whole world is a weapon.

She had controlled him. Down to the breath he drew. He'd thanked her for it, and it hadn't been enough for her. Fair enough. He had, after all, defied her in the end.

She raised a hand imperiously, fingers balled loosly into a fist, and her eyes were not on Will's but on the raven's black ones.

A weapon is only a weapon with a will behind it, and a chain is only a chain when someone holds the key.