Quotes About Dominance

Throughout history, the characteristic feature of the nation state is its monopoly of violence.

God, Smith just as surely defenestrated Leviathan.

For most of history, the state has been an 'ever-present predator and all-around abuser of human rights'

I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great

When you have enough power and money, you can dictate the meanings of words.

Nature is not to be conquered, man is.

He defeated her by admitting her power; she could not have the gratification of enforcing it.

All the giants of the spirit whom I've broken. I don't think anybody ever realized how much I enjoyed doing it. It's a kind of lust. I'm perfectly indifferent to slugs like Ellsworth Toohey or my friend Alvah, and quite willing to leave them in peace. But just let me see a man of a slightly higher dimension—and I've got to make a sort of Toohey out of him. I've got to. It's like a sex urge.

One puts oneself above all and crushes everything in one's way to get the best for oneself.

If men like Boyle think that force is all they need to rob their betters—let them see what happens when one of their betters chooses to resort to force.

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

didn't you enjoy meeting the young men?" "What men? There wasn't a man there I couldn't squash ten of.

remembered what he had said to Dominique once: "A complicated piece of machinery, such as our society ... and by pressing your little finger against one spot ... the center of all its gravity ... you can make the thing crumble into a worthless heap of scrap iron ...

But you're wrong, Paul, you're so wrong! What would happen to Henry's vanity if he didn't have us to throw alms to? What would become of his strength if he didn't have weaker people to dominate? What would he do with himself if he didn't keep us around as dependents? It's quite all right, really, I'm not criticizing him, it's just a law of human nature.

Si tienes éxito, algún fracasado será tu dueño; si fracasas, algún triunfador será tu siervo.

It's roots clutched the hill like a fist with fingers sunk into the soil, and he thought that if a giant were to seize it by the top, he would not be able to uproot it, but would swing the hill and the whole earth with it, like a ball at the end of a string.

sustituiremos la aristocracia del dinero por... —... la aristocracia del pillaje

Forms of power flow and translate into each other, or, to put it in a less reified matter, possessors of power move to expand and guard it, among other things by gaining hold and tightening their grip on the various levers of power. No effective state power can maintain control, defend its realm against outsiders, or safeguard against usurpation without a substantial underpinning of force.

We are all capable of becoming the blind censor, of imposing our visions and desires on others.

She had the satisfaction, so beloved of dictators, of a permanent state of emergency.

Other Arab leaders quickly echoed these sentiments, spurred in part by editorializing from Al Jazeera, the Qatari-controlled media outlet that had become the dominant news source in the region, having built its popularity by fanning the flames of anger and resentment among Arabs with the same algorithmic precision that Fox News deployed so skillfully with conservative white voters in the States.

history was sure to run along its predetermined course, an endless cycle of fear, hunger and conflict, dominance and weakness?

I realized, too, that a set of unique circumstances had underwritten the stability of the governing consensus of which he had been a part: not just the shared experiences of the war, but also the near unanimity forged by the Cold War and the Soviet threat, and perhaps more important, the unrivaled dominance of the American economy during the fifties and sixties, as Europe and Japan dug themselves out of the postwar rubble.

Somehow human authority is never enough; we must have special effects.