Quotes About Dominance

power is tolerable only on condition that it masks a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to an ability to hide its own mechanisms.

We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.

A stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains; but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chain of their own ideas… on the soft fibers of the brain is founded the unshakable base of the soundest of Empires.

there is no escaping from power, that it is always-already present constituting that very thing which one attempts to counter it with.

Le supplice ne rétablissait pas la justice, il réactivait le pouvoir.

We have to rise up against all forms of power—but not just power in the narrow sense of the word, referring to the power of a government or of one social group over another: these are only a few particular instances of power. Power is anything that tends to render immobile and untouchable those things that are offered to us as real, as true, as good.

one exists only when fixed in definite relations of domination ...

In political thought and analysis, we still have not cut off the head of the king... we must construct an analytics of power that no longer takes law as a model and a code.

Hay que admitir, en suma, que este poder se ejerce más que se posee, que no es el "privilegio" adquirido o conservado de la clase dominante sino el efecto de conjunto de sus posiciones estratégicas, efecto que manifiesta, y a veces acompaña, la posición de aquellos que son dominados.

The processes of objectification originate in the very tactics of power and of the arrangement of its exercise.

por el poder de hacer vivir o de arrojar a la muerte.

Là où il y a pouvoir, il y a résistance.

God, but it was fun! It was the way I liked it. No arguing, no talking to the stupid peasants. I just walked into that room with a tommy gun and shot their guts out. They never thought that there were people like me in this country. They figured us all to be soft as horse manure and just as stupid.

Estamos tan bien entrenados que somos nuestro propio domador. Somos un animal autodomesticado

The time of human domination on Earth is barely a drop in the ocean of geological time, and it takes a lot to make a ripple in that ocean.

GeleceÄŸe egemen olmak istenilmesinin nedeni, geçmiÅŸi deÄŸiÅŸtirecek güce sahip olmaktan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

Her weakness was aggressive and kept forcing him to capitulate until eventually he lost his strength and was transformed into the rabbit in her arms .

He would never command her (...). Not that he lacks sensuality; he simply lacks the strength to give orders (...) What if she had a man who ordered her about? A man who wanted to master her? How long would she put up with him? Not five minutes! From which it follows that no man was right for her. Strong or weak.

a hatalom akkor a legédesebb, amikor legelfogadhatatlanabb. Amikor a buta az okos, a gyenge az erÅ's, a ronda a szép felett uralkodik...

Berjuang berarti menempatkan kehendak seseorang terhadap orang lain dengan tujuan untuk menghancurkannya, memaksanya bertekuk lutut, dan barangkali membunuhnya.

E se avesse avuto o un uomo che le dava degli ordini? Un uomo che voleva dominarla? Quanto tempo l'avrebbe sopportato? Nemmeno cinque minuti! Ne derivava che nessun uomo le andava bene. Né uno forte né uno debole.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him.

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.