Quotes About Dominance

So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing it. Similarly, believing an alternative and transforming framing story may turn out to be the most radical thing any of us can ever do.

Democracy doesn't work, Christianity doesn't work, nor Atheism, Nothing works but the gun and the man on top.

It is the untold story of this war and it is the story of every war ever fought. Greedy men seeing someone weaker with something they want.

Around thrones the thunder rolls.

And it is always the victors who write the historical narrative.

Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex. Woman's sexual glamour has bewitched and destroyed men since Delilah and Helen of Troy.

All of these cities and towns are, in a sense, suburbs of Los Angeles. . . . dominated by Los Angeles.

The main characteristic of an alpha male wolf," Rick says, "is a quiet confidence, quiet self-assurance. You know what you want to do; you know what's best for the pack. You're very comfortable with that. You have a calming effect. Point is, alpha males are surprisingly nonaggressive, because they don't need to be.

Without consulting our opinion—or even bothering to inform us of the underlying strategy—our brains produce hormones that make us feel strongly compelled to strive for status and assert dominance. Dominance feels like an end in itself. We don't need to know why. Here's why: high status aids survival. Status is a daily proxy for competition for mates and food.

One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment.)

Apart from the social insects, no other species has been clever enough to invent war It is an institution optimally configured to benefit the alphas

Somewhere in the steaming jungles of the Carboniferous Period there emerged an organism that for the first time in the history of the world had more information in its brains than in its genes. It was an early reptile which, were we to come upon it in these sophisticated times, we would probably not describe as exceptionally intelligent… Much of the history of life since the Carboniferous Period can be described as the gradual (and certainly incomplete) dominance of brains over genes.

Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment.)

Jean Baker Miller pointed out that the so-called need to control and dominate others is psychologically a function, not of a feeling of power, but of a feeling of powerlessness. Distinguishing between power for oneself and power over others, she writes: In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.

He understood that letting the magic guide him, that letting it think it was in control when actually it wasn't, allowed him to be its master.

Power corrupts, and if not watched carefully, if not kept under control, it will come to dominate the user.

Humans—once they were born into the world—were of a different mind-set. They were determined to make their lives better not by adapting to nature, but by subjugating her. The entire history of their evolution has been centered on taking

Morality cannot be divorced from power.

To those who would dominate you, knowledge must be crushed, because people who understand are people who will stand against the unfairness of the elite.

Everyone to one extent or another must face life's trials. There will always be those who try to influence or even dominate us. We can not allow such things to be an excuse for making the wrong choices. Ultimately each of us lives our own life and is responsible for it. (Terry Goodkind The Confessor)

Darken Rahl, as had his father before him, considered women merely vessels for the man's seed, the dirt it grew in, unworthy of higher recognition.

Like it or not, the aggressor makes the rules. You must play by them, or you will surely die by them.

Like it or not, the aggressor makes the rules.

The weapon which most readily conquers reason is terror and violence