Quotes About Dominance

better, she couldn't control the wash

The dominant ruling class of our time owns and controls information.

Who knew an elf queen could be so vicious!

God save us from people who think they know what's best for us.

Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.

He would go east and fight the emperor's wars, carrying out the bloody business of larger countries eating up the littler ones. It wasn't a matter of theory in a tiny office in the emperor's palace. It was the work of their lives and the end of many of them.

Trapped him the gray people    as the great are brought down by the weak    when they are many As the hawk is mobbed by the roller birds    as the great sea eagle is brought down by gulls

The duke is oblivious to all of this. He seems to regard himself as above everyone else, even—and maybe especially—his wife. Like they're all children he's tolerating until they're sent back into the nursery with the governess.

I've never said it to his face, but sometimes he can be a little controlling. He tries to tell me what to wear, how to do my hair, that I'm too loud sometimes.

No siege engine could equal the destructive power of Zenobia sitting so close.

If you even suggest to my crew that you've threatened your way aboard my lady, I'll rip out your spine. That's unbearably arousing.

Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

I'm clear with all my bitches...I hump her till she bites me. Then it's adios bitches, time for BALL.

Well, there's two kinds of peeing...There's regular peeing, because you have to pee. And then there's auxiliary competitive peeing. For acquiring empire. I'm all about the real estate.

Patriarchy has no gender.

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

Psychological patriarchy is a dance of contempt, a perverse form of connection that replaces true intimacy with complex, covert layers of dominance and submission, collusion and manipulation. It is the unacknowledged paradigm of relationships that has suffused Western civilization generation after generation, deforming both sexes, and destroying the passionate bond between them.

It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power.

In the dominator model the pursuit of external power, the ability to manipulate and control others, is what matters most. When culture is based on a dominator model, not only will it be violent but it will frame all relationships as power struggles.

More than ever before in our nation's history, females are encouraged to assume the patriarchal mask and bury their emotional selves as deeply as their male counterparts do. Females embrace this paradigm because they feel it is better to be a dominator than to be dominated.

When men lie to women, presenting a false self, the terrible price they pay to maintain "power over" us is the loss of their capacity to give and receive love. Trust is the foundation of intimacy. When lies erode trust, genuine connection cannot take place. While men who dominate others can and do experience ongoing care, they place a barrier between themselves and the experience of love.

It is not true that men are unwilling to change. It is true that many men are afraid to change. It is true that masses of men have not even begun to look at the ways that patriarchy keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. To know love, men must be able to let go the will to dominate.

Since women remain the primary caretakers of children, the facts confirm the reality that given a hierarchal system in a culture of domination which empowers females (like the parent-child relationship) all too often they use coercive force to maintain dominance. In a culture of domination everyone is socialized to see violence as an acceptable means of social control.

Showing aggression is the simplest way to assert patriarchal manhood. Men of all classes know this. As a consequence, all men living in a culture of violence must demonstrate at some point in their lives that they are capable of being violent.