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Quotes About Dominance

Real power is—I don't even want to use the word—fear." Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump in an interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa on March 31, 2016, at the Old Post Office Pavilion, Trump International Hotel, Washington, D.C.
~ Bob Woodward
their heels," Priebus said. "Put all the chips on the table. And then slowly but surely pick off each chip individually." It could be a person, a policy, a country, a foreign leader, a Republican, a Democrat, a controversy, an investigation—Trump would try to leverage anyone, by any means, and at times he would succeed.
~ Bob Woodward
And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble.
~ Boris Pasternak
that the most potent power in the entire world came from having power over someone else.
~ Brad Meltzer
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Alan Whitcomb
~ Brad Thor
I believe power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
~ Brad Thor
If you must break the law, do it to seize power." —JULIUS CAESAR
~ Brad Thor
dictate the terms of the relationship," Carl had instructed her, "or they do. You never want it to be them. Always make sure it's you.
~ Brad Thor
I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
~ Bram Stoker
He will not admit anything, and down faces everybody. If he can't out-argue them he bullies them, and then takes their silence for agreement with his views.
~ Bram Stoker
Now came Dr Foxcastle, sailing magisterially around the corner like a fat, black ship.
~ Susanna Clarke
The corporeal vampire, if he existed, would be by definition the greatest of all predators, living as he would off the top of the food chain.
~ Suzy McKee Charnas
India and China, or, for that matter, the Aztec and Inca empires, had not even come close to such global dominance, and even less so to reinventing how people produced things in the far-flung corners of the globe. And yet starting in the sixteenth century, armed European capitalists and capital-rich European states reorganized the world's cotton industry.
~ Sven Beckert
My domineering lover made no apologies for his caveman tendencies.
~ Sylvia Day
You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva. he flattened me into the side of the car. I was pinned by six feet, two inches of violently aroused male.
~ Sylvia Day
She's my mate; that makes her mine. Forgetting that will see your neck no longer serving its purpose." "I love it when you talk dirty," she purred. "Give my regards to Lindsay.
~ Sylvia Day
He nuzzled her loosened vest off her shoulder and whispered in her ear. "One day soon, when you're ready, I'm going to mount you like this. I'm going to ride you while you arch your neck for me. I'm going to mark you with my teeth. Fuck you. Mate with you. Then you'll be mine, Vashti. Irrevocably. Every luscious, stubborn, dangerous inch of you. Mine.
~ Sylvia Day
Men glanced his way and altered course some, instinctively recognizing and alpha male at rest.
~ Sylvia Day
Think of a word you associate with power. /Your/ safeword, angel. Choose it
~ Sylvia Day
I've told you before," he said huskily. "I'll take you however I can get you." "Whatever. Don't think I don't know you're topping from the bottom.
~ Sylvia Day
You forget who submits, Eva," he said gruffly. "I've given up control for you. I've bent and adjusted for you. I'll do anything to keep you and make you happy. But I won't be tamed or topped. Don't mistake indulgence for weakness.
~ Sylvia Day
Yes, money talked—loudly—and Gideon had tons of it. But he conveyed command and control with subtle actions. I recognized that after living with Nathan's father, my mom's first husband, who'd wielded power like a blunt instrument.
~ Sylvia Day
Maybe a mouse gets to thinking pretty early on how the whole world is run by these enormous feet. Well, from where I sit, I figure the world is run by one thing and this one thing only. Panic with a dog-face, devil-face, hag-face, whore-face, panic in capital letters with no face at all—it's the same Johnny Panic, awake or asleep.
~ Sylvia Plath
A veces ser el que ostenta el mando significa poseer menos libertad que la que tiene el menor de los siervos. Jarnauga
~ Tad Williams