Quotes About Dominance

Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.

For Love will still be lord of all.

Societies on this planet are based upon fear, not upon love. The strong dominate the weak.

I wanted to break you. I never expected you to like it.

In the final analysis, with Rene she had been an apprentice to love, she had loved him only to learn how to give herself, enslaved and surfeited, to Sir Stephen.

Not kill us, Pigeon corrected. She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

Assertive behaviors are often associated with dominant dogs but are, in fact, often used by dogs who are extremely insecure or under-socialized.

What if the growth of the new movement, the new humanity, the new social creation or construction depends on the old one losing its hegemony?

the supreme value of all authoritarians: winning, by concentrating power in the hands of their group and its supreme leader.

Salman Rushdie said it well:  "Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives - the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change - truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

If God dominates the world and everything in it with an iron fist (or rod, as in Psalm 2:9 and Revelation 2:27), we may find ourselves more amenable to authoritarians who do the same, especially if they hold up Bibles in front of churches.

It flattered me that he found my story intriguing. I didn't understand then, or maybe I was too young to realize, that men can be like that about things they want to own. That one way to control someone is to learn everything about them, so you always have ammunition to use when you need it.

Truth belongs to those who control that perspective.

Men who are fundamentally weak look upon threats as the ultimate expressions of power. Men who are truly powerful, however, view threats as yet another vulnerability. —BARON VLADIMIR HARKONNEN, Advice for Assassins

The Guild was beyond the control of the Padishah Emperor.

Humans must never submit to animals. —Bene Gesserit Teaching

The Baron had a monopoly on Arrakis—but it was also a monopoly based on ignorance. He gritted his teeth and knew

If you perceive that a person holds power over you, whether or not it is true, then your weakness is very real. —MANFORD TORONDO, final Lampadas rally

Law always moves in the direction of protecting the strong and oppressing the weak. Dependence upon force corrodes justice. — CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Precepts of Civilization

It is difficult to make power lovable—this is the dilemma of all governments. —PADISHAH EMPEROR HASSIK III, private Kaitain journals

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp with too much force is to be taken over by power, thus becoming its victim.

I am their Emperor, and they will do as I say.

Yeah, that's right. Flee in terror, bitches!

Rock beats scissors, bitch.