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Quotes About Dominance

Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?
~ George Eliot
Giants have an immemorial right to stupidity and insolent abuse.
~ George Eliot
If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon.
~ George Eliot
The circumstances would always be stronger than his assertion. And
~ George Eliot
I don't deny that he was good. A man to be admired in a play–grand, with an iron will... But such men turn their wives and daughters into slaves. They would rule the world if they could; but not ruling the world, they throw all the weight of their will on the necks and souls of women. But nature sometimes thwarts them. My father had no other child than his daughter, and was like himself.
~ George Eliot
I don't deny that he was good. A man to be admired in a play–grand, with an iron will... But such men turn their wives and daughters into slaves. They would rule the world if they could; but not ruling the world, they throw all the weight of their will on the necks and souls of women. But nature sometimes thwarts them. My father had no other child than his daughter, and she was like himself.
~ George Eliot
Those in government are especially susceptible to the corruption of power, because government is institutionalized coercion.
~ George H. Smith
This is not just about same-sex couples. It is about which values will dominate in our society.
~ George Lakoff
Here is the hierarchy: God above man; man above nature; adults above children; Western culture above non-Western culture; our country above other countries.
~ George Lakoff
What exactly is moral focus? It is giving moral priority to one particular domain of interest over others. The result is that one domain is seen as having primary moral significance over other domains. Thus
~ George Lakoff
'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.
~ Jack Zipes
I describe the relationship between man and woman as a Hegelian relationship between master and slave. As long as men are able to increase their sexual value through work, fame or wealth, while women are only powerful through their body, beauty and youth, nothing will change.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
~ John Boyd Orr
Casey was the better team and the better team won.
~ Bill Evans
I won 34 in my career and I never thought that the record would last, that I'd be the person with the most stage wins.
~ Eddy Merckx
Navratilova won an astounding 167 singles titles and 166 doubles titles in a career which has spanned nearly 30 years. She changed the game of women's tennis by forcing opponents to reach her standards of fitness and athleticism.
~ Elizabeth Vargas
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
~ Pierre Corneille
If you've ever won a championship, then that's all you're interested in doing.
~ Bill Parcells
I always say the Boston Celtics of the 1960s were the only true dynasty, because they won nine titles in a 10-year span.
~ Robert Horry
At least six Bayern players, who have won almost everything, are in the national squad.
~ Franz Beckenbauer
But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest.
~ Richard Krajicek
I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.
~ Tony Dungy
In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.
~ Marcus Buckingham
I have seen some great players doing wonderful things, but being so decisive for so long over 12 or 14 years as a professional, I think no player, maybe only Pele in his time, has shown that level. He shows it in every game. I don't know how many hat-tricks he's had.
~ Quique Setien