Quotes About Dominance

Whoever has the power in society determines what can be studied, determines what can be observed, determines what can be thought.

there was no objective truth, only the truth that's established by power.

The gene," Dr. Narcejac-Boileau said, "is associated with social dominance and strong control over other people. We have isolated it in sports leaders, CEOs, and heads of state. We believe the gene is found in all dictators throughout history.

You have to realize, all these decisions are about power. Sexual harassment is about power, and so is the company's resistance to dealing with it.

Saben lo que están haciendo. Hay máquinas por doquier. Antes servían al hombre, pero ahora empiezan a dominarle. Muy sutilmente, pero pronto lo lograrán. -Harry Benson-

They had all studied animal behavior, and they knew, for example, that when a new male took over a lion pride, the first thing he did was kill all the cubs.

Better, then, to go light on the sexual particulars, and think instead of who's winning and who's losing at any given point. How is power being exchanged here? I want to say, "Who's on top?" But that would of course be sleazy, and just generally beneath me...

Since he was much weaker than his enemy, he could afford to display no weakness at all.

She went up on tiptoes, just so she could look down on him.

No es el respeto, sino el miedo lo que motiva a un hombre; así se construyen imperios y se ponen en marcha revoluciones. Ése es el secreto de los grandes hombres. Cuando un hombre tiene miedo de que lo aplastes, de que lo destruyas por completo, su respeto siempre vendrá detrás. El temor más elemental siempre es embriagador, abrumador, liberador. Siempre es más intenso que el respeto

My will can control anything that's empty.

Und wer die Zeit der Menschen besitzt, der hat unbegrenzte Macht!

No human difference matters much until it becomes a privilege, until it becomes the basis for oppression. Power is the vector that turns minor into major.

When asked the key to his success, he said, "In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

The Yankees understood what New York understood, that there was no shame in buying success, and maybe because of their lack of shame they did what they did better than anyone in the business.

the right word," Simpson said later. "He seemed completely intimidated by authority.

We are the only reason your shitty state is standing.

the utilitarians. They were interested only in the computer's crude and brutish ability to impose its will on the world around it.

Inside him a quality and a chemical—intelligence and testosterone—wrestled for hegemony.

Inside him a quality and a chemical—intelligence and testosterone—wrestled for hegemony. At the moment the chemical was winning on points.

Therefore the skillful commander takes up a position in which he cannot be defeated and misses no opportunity to master his enemy.

Let them come. We've got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We've got armies of robots. What do they have but their stench and the squalor they live in?

It was a world ruled these days by the gun, the guitar, and the needle, sexier than sex, where the good right hand had become the male's primary sexual organ...

There is none but me, Myshella the Dark Lady – and I am the mistress.