Quotes About Dominance

merely engaging the culture implies the issue and exercise of power.

When the slave auctioneer asked him what he was skilled at, Diogenes said "At governing people," and, pointing to a well-dressed buyer, he said "Sell me to that man, for he wants a master.

Jake Sully: This is how it's done. When people are sittin' on shit that you want, you make 'em your enemy. Then you're justified in taking it. from "Avatar

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

Darwin had said the fittest survived, and the Social Darwinists completed the circle. The best way to demonstrate fitness to survive was to dominate one's fellows;

Go ahead. Take that thick leather belt and tan my hide for me." I turned over and wiggled my tail at him, wondering how far this game would go.

Time is a Colossus, and he's marching up Broadway!

For all that sentients have achieved with weapons and machines, life remains an ongoing battle for survival, with the strong or the smart at the top of the heap, and the rest kept in check by firepower and laws.

Triumphing over nature means better lives for sentients, but dominance is sustained only by bringing order to chaos and establishing law where none exists.

The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

an awareness of who's in charge. Hint: not you.

Infidel leaned over and picked up the Gloryhammer. She slung it over her shoulder. "This is mine now." "Really?" asked Zetetic. "What gives you a claim to it?" "The fact that I'll flatten anyone who tries to take it from me." "I find your reasoning quite persuasive," said Zetetic. Infidel's

Laws exist only for the benefit of the strong; they unfailingly justify the oppression of the weak.

under progressivism, the state will grow until it controls everything and absolutely. That is, it will grow into a totalitarian state.

Oppressors themselves acknowledge that even the weakest of their subjects must agree to be oppressed.

Power will always be restricted to a relatively small number of selected persons. Anyone can be strong.

If wealth and might are to be performed, great wealth and great might must be performed brilliantly.

To use the machine for control is to be controlled by the machine.

The titled are powerful. Those around them are expected to yield, to withdraw their opposition, and to conform to their will—in the arena in which the title was won.

The exercise of power always presupposes resistance.

The exercise of power always presupposes resistance. Power is never evident until two or more elements are in opposition.

Power is always measured in units of comparison. In fact, it is a term of competition: How much resistance can I overcome relative to others?

Power is a concept that belongs only in finite play.

Imposed silence is the first consequence of the Master Player's triumph.