Quotes About Dominance

Manipulation works so well on a personal level, I don't see why it wouldn't be an equally viable national policy." "That's actually how most rulership works," Ham mused. "What is a governement but an institutionalized method of making sure somebody else does all the work?

Act like you were important, act like you were angry, and people just wanted to get out of your way.

They're scared of you." Zahel's voice, drifting again above the crowd. "Do you see it in them? Show them why.

The first step to being in control was to see yourself as capable of being in control.

Men like power, and they love controlling something powerful.

On an individual basis, in most interactions, this thing we call power—authority—exists only as it is perceived.

On the three-hundredth anniversary of my birth, I finally managed to conquer the world.

Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately

I've never understood one thing: Why do all these megalomaniac dictators, secret societies, mad scientists, and totalitarian aliens want to rule the world? I mean really? Don't they know what a pain in the neck it is to be in charge? People are always making unreasonable demands of kings. "Please save us from the invading Vandal hoards! Please make sure we have proper sanitation to prevent the spread of disease! Please stop beheading your wives so often; it's ruining the rugs!

I am depending upon you to preserve us in power by means of this art we so freely call an abomination. Our hunger for power outweighs our conscience.

He always watched and studied. He was a king—and you could not properly dominate that which you did not understand.

He moved like some ancient god of lore, presiding over a battlefield of miniature mortals who couldn't see him, but certainly felt his almighty hand. Except, if Dennison was a god, his specialty certainly wasn't war.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power.

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

Always the victor writes the history of the vanquished. He who beats distorts the faces of the beaten. The weaker depart from this world and the lies remain.

When looking at the attributes associated with masculinity in the US, the same researchers identified the following; winning, emotional control, risk-taking, violence, dominance, playboy, self-reliance, primacy at work, power over women, disdain for homosexuality, and pursuit of status.

Hubris is an inflated sense of one's own innate abilities that is tied more to the need for dominance than to actual accomplishments. It

power-over as working like this: "I will define who you are and then I'll make you believe that's your own definition." This chilling explanation

I'm the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.

Men conscious of inferiority are always trying to impose themselves on others, because they know that underneath they are cowards or cretins.

With my pen I will rule the world. You'll see, they'll call me the scourge of princes.

There was always somebody at the top who dictated the terms, specifically or by implication, that those below had to accept. - Kurt Wallander

La libert? existe toujours. Il suffit d`en payer le prix. -La vie, ce n`est pas la prise, c`est desir. -Le suicide est le dernier acte par lequel un homme puisse montrer qu`il a domin? sa vie.