Quotes About Dominance

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

was the most powerful ruler in the western

Everyone wants the tallest tree to fall

This is how conquest occurs: one plan is always larger than the other.

What is the conquerer's wife, fi not a conquest herself?

Must look down on the hate of those below. —LORD BYRON, 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Caligula ne demiÅŸti? Oderint dum meduant. Bizden korktuklar? sürece, b?rak?n bizden nefret etsinler.

And the side that knew how to utilize power was the side that won.

the former colony itself becoming colonialist.

Imbued as he was with the idea that only whites could rule the islands efficiently, he was able to consider this a form of patriotism.

We used to be the fucker," one of Anaconda's lawyers lamented. "Now we're the fuckee.

Even Stalin's absolute power did not delight him absolutely. He exulted in it, yet it roused his self-pity.

great deal of research has been conducted for decades on what has come to be called brain dominance theory. The findings basically indicate that each hemisphere of the brain—left and right—tends to specialize in and preside over different functions, process different kinds of information, and deal with different kinds of problems.

Although people use both sides of the brain, one side or the other generally tends to be dominant in each individual. Of course, the ideal would be to cultivate and develop the ability to have good crossover between both sides of the brain so that a person could first sense what the situation called for and then use the appropriate tool to deal with it.

In a world of locked rooms, the man with the key is king. And honey, you should see me in a crown.

Knowledge is the first thing eradicated once power is attained. History has proven that over and over.

Communism's entire existence depended on coercion.

un padre dominante se parece enormemente al candidato político que cree que el dinero gana elecciones, cuando en realidad si un candidato no gusta a los votantes no saldrá elegido ni con todo el dinero del mundo.

The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalism, groupthink, self-deception

People force a despised minority to live in squalor, which makes them seem animalistic and subhuman, which encourages the dominant group to mistreat them further, which degrades them still further, removing any remaining tug on the oppressors' conscience.

I am a superman: hard, cold, terrible, without feelings and without conscience.

One doesn't have to invoke dominance to explain why Genghis Khan inseminated so many women that his Y chromosome is common in Central Asia today; it's enough to observe that he killed the women's fathers and husbands.

Natural selection consists of competition among genes to be represented in the next generation, and the organisms we see today are descendants of those that edged out their rivals in contests for mates, food, and dominance.