Quotes About Dominance

The United States is going to keep on with its imperialist ways.

We want to play a physical game and impose our will on people.

My game plan - doesn't matter who I play - is to play on my terms, to control as much as I can, to try to get control of the centre of the court, to try to dictate and make them move, to be their director rather than letting them impose their game on me.

It's a fist fight - the idea is to go out there and impose my will.

I really feel that if you impose your will on somebody, eventually they'll break.

That's the great thing about being an all-rounder. You can impose yourself on the game with bat and ball.

My coach in college always told me, 'You don't go out there to win lackadaisical, you don't go out there to win by one point, you don't go out there to coast through - you go out to dominate. You impose your will on a man.' And he was my fight coach for a little bit, too, and I did the same thing.

At the end of the day, my job is to win in impressive fashion.

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

there was much to amuse her. Secretly she gloated upon her power over this most fearsome monarch....

The great crocodiles of the Bosporus, the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Yangtze, and the Volga are squaring off against Little Boy; in the wildest of their schemes, they see themselves taking him down in one bite.

the force of her presence had the effect of diminishing everyone else's

it doesn't matter what professors Or smart-alecks think; all that counts is how the little Man sees his master. Basta.

La verità riesce ad imporsi solo nella misura in cui noi la imponiamo; la vittoria della ragione non può essere che la vittoria di coloro che ragionano.

They enjoyed the passive acquiescence—and at times the direct support—of the police, the army, and the church.

As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.

Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him.

History is the register of the strife of authorities.

History is the register of the strife of authorities. Always and everywhere man takes possession of man to bend him to his will and adapt him to his designs; so that society is seen to be a galaxy of authorities which arise, grow, and fight each other.

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

Vowing never to be deluded again, he ordered that a new bride be brought to him each night and on each following morning he had her executed.