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Quotes About Dominance

Imagine a toddler repeatedly striking his mother in the face. Why would he do such a thing? It's a stupid question. It's unacceptably naive. The answer is obvious. To dominate his mother. To see if he can get away with it. Violence, after all, is no mystery. It's peace that's the mystery. Violence is the default. It's easy. It's peace that is difficult: learned, inculcated, earned.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
To his great and salutary shock, I picked him bodily off the playground structure, and threw him thirty feet down the field.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
conqueror." Genghis Khan's outstanding reproductive
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Tu nunca vai mudar, meu bem. Tua única presunção é tua honra. Mas eu já comi ela uma vez, vou comer outra… Por mais professora que você seja, meu bem, na vadiação é minha aluna. E eu vim para acabar de te formar…
~ Jorge Amado
Me propongo contar, pues, la trama del siglo. De mi siglo. Mi versión sobre cómo el azar ha gobernado al mundo y sobre cómo los hombres de ciencia tratamos en vano de domesticar su furia.
~ Jorge Volpi
The fraternity of the henpecked.
~ Joseph Addison
Exterminate all the brutes!
~ Joseph Conrad
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.
~ Joseph Conrad
Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
~ Joseph Conrad
we will manage the worlds finance whether world likes it or not.
~ Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
il partageait avec un autre héros de la révolution le pouvoir d'agiter la multitude, sans avoir celui de la dominer, ce qui forme le véritable cachet de la médiocrité dans les troubles politiques.
~ Joseph de Maistre
We are the strong ones. We squash anything that we don't like. Anything that threatens us gets smeared! (Grimalkin to Alice)
~ Joseph Delaney
I am Grimalkin and I could kill you all!" I cried. "But I will slay only three - the strongest three!
~ Joseph Delaney
How can it hope to defeat me? I am Grimalkin.
~ Joseph Delaney
Pouchkine était son père spirituel. Pouchkine domina la vie littéraire de Dostoïevski du début à la fin. C'est pour lui, l'idole littéraire de sa jeunesse, que le romancier prit pour la dernière fois la parole en public. En 1880, à l'occasion de l'inauguration du monument Pouchkine, Dostoïevski prononça un discours qui eut un immense retentissement dans toute la Russie.
~ Joseph Frank
He is great enough that is his own master.
~ Joseph Hall
To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.
~ Joseph Jacques Jean Chrtien
In the early Middle Ages the dominant form of political organization in Western Europe was the Germanic kingdom, and the German kingdom was in some ways the complete antithesis of the modern state. (p. 13)
~ Joseph Reese Strayer
power is the ability to influence the behavior of others to get the outcomes one wants.
~ Joseph S. Nye Jr.
This could be our chance to make RiverClan great. If the other Clans are weak, we could rule over the whole forest.
~ Erin Hunter
Blood Will Rule the Forest
~ Erin Hunter
This is what power feels like.
~ Erin Hunter
We've taken what should be ours, and we will take more," Smokefoot told him.
~ Erin Hunter
I can do more than make you leader. I can give you everything you've ever dreamed of," she went on. "Power over your Clanmates. Power over all the Clans.
~ Erin Hunter