Quotes About Dominance

In general, too, the conquerors would be better than the conquered (most merits in early society are more or less military merits), but they would not be very much better, for the lowest steps in the ladder of civilization are very steep, and the effort to mount them is slow and tedious.

Religion is the best weapon to rule or use a nation if you know how to use it.

All exercise of authority perverts, and submission to authority humiliates.

A scientific body to which had been confided the government of society would soon end by devoting itself no longer to science at all, but to quite another affair; and that affair, as in the case of all established powers, would be its own eternal perpetuation by rendering the society confided to its care ever more stupid and consequently more in need of its government and direction.

Old maids who have never yielded in their habits of life or in their characters to other lives and other characters, as the fate of woman exacts, have, as a general thing, a mania for making others give way to them.

fight authority with authority

It helps to fight authority with authority

That is the way with all of your kind… It is how you are made; you must all strive to claw your way over the backs of your fellow humans during the short time you are permitted in the universe, breeding when you can, so that the strongest strain survive and the weakest die. I would no more blame you for that than I would try to convert some non-sentient carnivore to vegetarianism. You are all on your own side.

The Idirans themselves had evolved on their planet Idir as the top monster from a whole planetful of monsters.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Most characteristics associated with leaders are masculine: dominance, authority, assertiveness, and so forth.

Insensitive people are powerful and the thoroughly thick-skinned are the most powerful. They make the best tyrants.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.

He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

He believed that rank without power was a sham.

Complacency is an attribute of long-retained power like that of the Chinese.

executions were meant as an exercise in frightfulness according to the theory developed by the Emperor Caligula: "Oderint dum metuant" (Let them hate us as long as they fear us).

Where Brooke was embracing cleanness and nobleness, Mann saw a more positive goal. Germans being, he said, the most educated, law-abiding, peace-loving of all peoples, deserved to be the most powerful, to dominate, to establish a "German peace" out of "what is being called with every possible justification the German war.

The affair made men feel larger than life.

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

against the unmeasured aggrandizement of any power whatsoever

Of authority there are two sorts, the authority of right, and the authority of force.