Quotes About Dominance

There is no greater equaliser than the stupidity of men, especially when those men have power.

GIOVANNI: But not all policeman think like you. Some of them like being policeman. SARGENT: Sure, some guys buy into it. They get off giving orders. They need to oppress somebody else to feel good about themselves.

It matters not whether you win or lose: what matters is whether I win or lose.

When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.

GOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE OCEAN: At one time, maybe. But not now. GOD: I will come to you, freeze you, break you. THE OCEAN: I will spread myself like wings. I am a billion tiny feathers. You have no idea what's happened to me.

The military and the politicians have been the same people for all but the most recent part of human history, and we know that the victor writes the history books.

When a man is frightened, he literally stops thinking with his forebrain (that is, with the mind of a human being) and begins to think with the midbrain (that is, with the portion of his brain that is essentially indistinguishable from that of an animal), and in the mind of an animal it is the one who makes the loudest noise or puffs himself up the largest who will win.

Gunpowder's superior noise, its superior posturing ability, made it ascendant on the battlefield.

Dialogue with an AK47 always ends the same way. The AK47 is always right.

To a large extent, that's the way empires work. Internal class war is a significant element of empire.

Imperial Palace.

Happiness is the knowledge that one is more powerful than all the objects in the world and all the thoughts in one's own mind.

Bogus fears can produce real servitude.

The arrogance of power is the best hope for the survival of freedom.

His skills were supreme now, and he used them supremely.

Given a choice between patterns of subsistence that are relatively unfavorable to the cultivator but which yield a greater return in manpower or grain to the state and those patterns that benefit the cultivator but deprive the state, the ruler will choose the former every time. The ruler, then, maximizes the state-accessible product, if necessary, at the expense of the overall wealth of the realm and its subjects.

modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in imperial rhetoric, as a "civilizing mission.

And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.

Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing

There is a striking analogy between the situation at the end of the fifteenth century, when life had become thoroughly saturated by organized religion, and that of today, when the world has become saturated with politics.

This tended to increase the size of societies because contests of violence more often than not were won by the larger group.

When weapons or tools of production can be effectively hoarded or monopolized, they tend to centralize power.

Minho laughed, then raised the palm of his hand and shoved Gally in the face. Thomas half stood as he watched the Glader crash down into his chair, tipping it over backward, cracking it in two pieces. Gally sprawled across the floor, then scrambled to stand up, struggling to get his hands and feet under him. Minho stepped closer and stomped the bottom of his foot down on Gally's back, driving his body flat to the ground.

culture is not neutral in relation to power but a form of power.