Quotes About Dominance

His wife "ruled the roast," and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.

It's a dog eat dog world. But only if the second dog is more stupid than the first.

Slavery, no matter who was the master, held unknown terrors of helplessness.

Give a man an inch and he'll call himself a ruler,

The difference between the human and the zombie is that the human dominates the conscience and the zombie is consciousness-dominated.

I'd better get back to work. I have empires to topple, people to fire, lives to ruin...

Should five slaves dictate to a king? If five baboons bark, must the black-maned lion tremble?

Play the game without mercy, play to win

Let me prevail as of old, as lover, as lord, as king, or have done with Love's tyrant rule.

because there is nothing so arousing as fear and submission and the threat of violence.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches. As he points out, the negative trumps the positive in many ways, and loss aversion is one of many manifestations of a broad negativity dominance.

Loss aversion refers to the relative strength of two motives: we are driven more strongly to avoid losses than to achieve gains. A reference point is sometimes the status quo, but it can also be a goal in the future: not achieving a goal is a loss, exceeding the goal is a gain. As we might expect from negativity dominance, the two motives are not equally powerful. The aversion to the failure of not reaching the goal is much stronger than the desire to exceed it.

defining risk is thus an exercise in power.

The Affect Heuristic The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

We must keep in mind Edward Said's important warning that the first reality for thinking creatively (and for us, theologically) about exile is that it is a form of disaster and trauma that is inseparably connected to human actions related to power, dominance, and brutality: 'To think of exile as beneficial, as a spur to humanism or to creativity, is to belittle its mutliations.' (p. 21)

Our president understands that he who controls history controls the future. - Sergei Korovin

The Tsar is the most powerful man in the world, never forget that.

The truly powerful man, said Shamron never had to ask for a favor.

A nuclear bomb can only be dropped once. But money can be wielded every day with no fallout and no threat of mutually assured destruction.

Thugs the world over loved nothing more than to look down on their vassals from a balcony.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

At once I understood how very different the lives of the victorious were from the lives of the conquered.