Quotes About Dominance

Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.

People fight harder for power than they do for freedom despite freedom is power.

It might have been my human side clamoring for blood, or my alien side looking for a chance to exercise strategic dominance over a lesser life form. Either way, I was going to win.

The sun does not rise abruptly, but perseveres until it rules the sky.

Whoever has the gold makes the rules.

women around here. Doesn't matter how smart you are, how clever, how self-reliant—you can always be bettered by a stupid man with a gun.

I heard him and could well imagine what he had been like in those business meetings, the career that had made him rich and arrogant. He was a man who was used to being heard, after all. He couldn't bear it that in some way I had the power to dictate his future, that I had somehow become Mother again. It

If you don't establish your dominance, you're not making life easier for the dog, you're condemning him to a life of confusion, disappointment, and destructive behavior.

If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.

As the colonial insects did to the other insects, we have pushed all other mammals to the margins, to extinction, or to servitude.

The Authority/subversion foundation

The sovereign power [or soft despot] extends its arms over the entire society; it covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated, minute, and uniform rules . . . it does not tyrannize, it hinders, it represses, it enervates, it extinguishes, it stupefies, and finally it reduces each nation to being nothing more than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, Democracy in America1

Como los chimpancés, la gente rastrea y recuerda quién está por encima de quién. Cuando las personas dentro de un orden jerárquico actúan de maneras que niegan o subvierten ese orden, lo podemos sentir instantáneamente, aunque nosotros mismos no hayamos sido directamente perjudicados.

had found evidence for Hume's claim. I had found that moral reasoning was often a servant of moral emotions, and this was a challenge to the rationalist approach that dominated moral psychology.

When you know what something is, you have power over it.

Justice is what the strong do the weak.

Besides, lead someone down an unknown road and soon there're completely lost without you. I just have to keep the others from interfering for a short while. Any suggestions? -Kill them. -Kill them. -Kill them. -Kill them. -Hmmm. Okay.

Overweening arrogance and why not? No one had told him no for a very long time.

he sagged like a rhino who'd lost out to the alpha male.

after all, a great power is a great power, it doesn't become one by chance, and doesn't remain one by chance, either.

People who like authoritarianism always picture themselves running the show. But no one stays on top for long.

The rest were rubbish compared to me.