Quotes About Dominance

Predatory animals usually devour prey in order to convert flesh into fuel. Most human predators, however, seek power, not food. To destroy or damage something is to take its power. This applies equally to a political movement, a government, a campaign, a career, a marriage, a performance, a fortune, or a religion. To push a pie into the face of the world's richest man is to take his power, if only for a moment.

While you may be able to keep your son Jimmy from owning [a gun], if you try to talk him out of wanting one, you are up against a pretty strong argument: You mean I shouldn't want a device that grants me power and identity, makes me feel dangerous and safe at the same time, instantly makes me the dominant male, and connects me to my evolutionary essence? Come on, Mom, get real!

Wars are fought for the gain of the few, over power, women, and commodities. Fortunate are women and those few, that men are such fools.

If they will not give themselves to us, then we will have to take them by force.

It matters not he who rules, but she who counts the money.

Men have two brains in constant warfare over the body's blood supply. When one wins, the other shuts down.

Some say it is better to rule in hell than serve in heaven. That is a defeatist attitude. I intend to rule everywhere, not just in Hell." - General Agamemnon New Memoirs

Or, as had happened so often in new territories, one army fought with weapons, manpower, disease—whatever they had—until the other population was simply eradicated.

Self aggrandizement is the most worthy and agreeable of sovereigns' occupations," the king wrote to the Marquis de Villars in 1688.7

RzÄ…dzi? znaczy sÅ'u?y?, kobieto! Ci, którzy sprawujÄ… wÅ'adzÄ™, sÄ… jej niewolnikami. Tylko wygnaniec jest wolny.

it's taking over me.

Karl Marx had said, "Give me twenty-six lead soldiers and I will conquer the world

What consumes your mind controls your life.

This is the essential lesson of politics: in the end ruling is the objective, not ruling well.

Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.

As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

Owning other human beings outright shaped the very core of the typical planter's personality. At home, after all, they were at once employers, legislators, policemen, prosecutors, judges, juries, jailers, and executioners.

Now, for the first time, the President began to look genuinely powerful, even dangerous. This was a classic political coalition: it had worked in Medieval France. It was the long-forgotten bottom of the heap, allied with the formerly feeble top, to scare the hell out of the arrogant and divisive middle.

The Internet of Things makes no attempt to redress, or even address, the many real problems that the internet brought to the world. On the contrary, it's an international effort to bring everything that wasn't internet within the purview of the techno-elite that currently dominates the internet.

The ability to expend energy, especially in the form of other people's labour, in non-utilitarian ways, is the most basic and universally understood symbol of power.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

O sadismo, se o reduzirmos ao princípio fundamental que o norteia, pouco mais será do que o desejo de vincar indelevelmente, e da maneira mais inequívoca e extrema, a marca da própria personalidade sobre as coisas e os seres do mundo exterior.

intended to subserve. That certain sultanism of his brain, which had otherwise in a good degree remained unmanifested; through those forms that same sultanism became incarnate in an irresistible

The United States wore empire on its brow