Quotes About Dominance

The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set

Here I want to see those men of hard voice. Those that break horses and dominate rivers; those men of sonorous skeleton who sing with a mouth full of sun and flint.

BERNARDA: Aquí se hace lo que yo mando. Ya no puedes ir con el cuento a tu padre. Hilo y aguja para las hembras. Látigo y mula para el varón. Eso tiene la gente que nace con posibles

Bossy people and glory hounds are mostly interested in building a power base so they can have yet more people to boss about. It's pitiful and a little sad, but we have all seen it. We saw it in school. We saw it in the playground. We saw it in college. And we saw it in our first job. If you are observant, you have been seeing it nearly all your life. Such

My advice on competition is always to ensure that you want to fight, and ought to fight on a larger competitor's ground.

Compitiendo las ansias de matar con la furia reproductora. Ganas con ganas a ver cuál puede más.

Esa polonesa fue una de las ilusiones de mi niñez, y al fin la dominé: como quien domina a su mujer al cabo de diez años. En amor y en música lo que no se da de una vez que no se dé.

The other crucial idea here is the vertiginous fall from 'heart of Empire' to 'occupied colony'. In the imperial imagination, there are only two states: dominant and submissive, colonizer and colonized. This dualism lingers. If England is not an imperial power, it must be the only other thing it can be: a colony. And, as Deighton successfully demonstrated, this logic can be founded in an alternative English history.

The] crucial idea here is the vertiginous fall from the 'heart of empire' to 'occupied colony'. In the imperial imagination, there are only two states: dominant and submissive, colonizer and colonized. The dualism lingers. If England is not an imperial power, it must be the only other thing it can be: a colony.

I'm no Prince Charming," he admitted flatly. "I'm big and hard, and so hungry it feels like I haven't had a woman in years. I wouldn't court you, Rachel, I'd just take you.

The bold dictate the terms.

America had, I believe, a divine founding. Call it American exceptionalism if you like. But that makes America all the more vulnerable to God's judgment if we become accustomed to glamorizing war, excusing lies, and parading our might and dominance.

His eyes stayed open imperiously. No one could close his eyelids. The room smoked of grief.

Of all of these anti-homeostatic factors in society, the control of the means of communication is the most effective and most important.

The most oppressed man finds a being to oppress, his wife: she is the proletarian of the proletarian.

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.

Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.

Whupped 'em agin, didn't we, Josey?

The oppressor no longer acts directly and with his own powers upon his victim. No, our discretion has become too refined for that. The tyrant and his victim are still present, but there is an intermediate person between them, which is the Government—that is, the Law itself.

But the law is made, generally, by one man, or by one class of men. And as law cannot exist without the sanction and the support of a preponderating force, it must finally place this force in the hands of those who legislate. This

In building towers into the clouds, man is proving to himself that he is above nature. And that's exactly how you feel at the top of one of these rockets of concrete and aluminum, glass, and steel: everything I can see belongs to me, no more traffic jams, gutters, sidewalks, I am man above the world. It is not the thrill of power, but of pride.

Porque también entonces se puede decir que la tiranía, en el fondo, es la construcción de una sumisión piramidal

It is easy to love power, because power tells you it is majesty and beauty and greatness.

Dogs have a master. Cats have servants