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Quotes About Dominance

Truth is powerful and it prevails.
~ Sojourner Truth
Lawless are they that make their wills their law
~ Spanish proverb
Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will
~ Spanish proverb
When the white man had warmed himself before the Indians' fire and filled himself with their hominy, he became very large. With a step he bestrode the mountains, and his feet covered the plains and the valleys. His hand grasped the eastern and the western sea, and his head rested on the moon.
~ Speckled Snake
Busty' Roberts had joined the Royal Artillery in 1914 and since then had steadily risen to the rank of Gunner. Now the crunch: someone with a perverted sense of humour made him a Lance Bombardier. Roberts went insane with power. The war now consisted of two people, him and Hitler.
~ Spike Milligan
La cuestión de saber a quién pertenecerá el poder en el país, esto es si la burguesía debe vivir o perecer, no se resolverá por lo que dicten los artículos de la constitución sino recurriendo a todas las formas de violencia»
~ Stéphane Courtois
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
~ St. Augustine
That is the way of management from time immemorial, in medieval feudal states, communist dictatorships, and capitalist conference rooms alike. It is the way the powerful treat those less so, and it is the human condition.
~ Stanley Bing
From the dog's viewpoint, however, they are directly asserting dominance with that stare. When you respond by giving him what he wants, the dog interprets this as a submissive gesture on your part, and also reads this as your acceptance that the dog has a higher status in the pack than you do.
~ Stanley Coren
Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.
~ Stanley Diamond
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
~ Stanley Kubrick
the empire that is won by the sword must be sustained by the same weapon. Honest
~ Stanley Lane-Poole
Când un om sau domn e puternic si tare, atunci poate face pacea cum vrea dar, cand e fara putere, unul mai tare va veni asupra lui si va face cu el ceea ce va voi
~ STEFAN ANDREESCU
Non vi è dubbio che una figura eroica, per il fatto solo della sua esistenza, domina per decenni e per secoli la vita spirituale. Nella vita dei fatti e della realtà, nella sfera della politica, ben di rado sono le figure eccezionali, gli uomini dalle idee pure, a decidere: decide invece la specie molto più meschina, ma più abile, degli uomini di sfondo.
~ Stefan Zweig
Tierna, esbelta. graciosa, encantadora, juguetona y coqueta. aquella muchacha de diecinueve años se convierte desde el primer momento en la diosa del rococó, el prototipo de la moda y del gusto dominantes
~ Stefan Zweig
Conquerors didn't make polite requests.
~ Stephanie Laurens
The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.
~ Denis Donoghue
In the Land of Truth, my friend, the man with one fact is King.
~ David Rasche
The fundamental truth is that the guys with the guns matter more than most.
~ Ilan Berman
Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.
~ Ken Wilber
The Hammer Of Justice Crushes You
~ Metallica
Tonin decided that it might be a good thing to be the King of the Droids. He was now a mighty leader, in command of hundreds of utility droids aboard Iron Fist.
~ Michael A. Stackpole
If you're not cop, you're little people.
~ Michael Connelly
Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.
~ Michael Crichton