Quotes About Dominance

The neoconservative ideology supports American financial and military-political imperialism or hegemony.

Scoring two goals at against Wembley against a Dutch team that was supposed to rip us apart and ripping them apart - it doesn't get any better than that.

My father was a dictator in the true German sense. He suppressed my mother.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world.

The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.

The man is king. The man is supreme.

I don't think I'm a bad guy from Dagestan. I think I'm a good guy from Dagestan. But for my opponents, for sure, I'm a bad guy because when I go to the cage every time, I smash my opponents.

The more power you have, the more surely it will be taken from you before you are ready to give it up.

The hold on power always ends. While death will surely break it, someone else usually grabs it before then.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

Immortality, power, dominance, all are illusions. Don't you see? We are simply pawns in a game beyond our understanding.' Pug

Fear had driven two enemies into each other's arms and he smiled at that thought. 'They fear me more than they do each other and that is good' he thought.

Genius in a person was like weed that takes over the entire garden, that won't allow anything else to grow. (p. 251)

One of the rights that the powerful often assume is the power to dictate reality.

This should remind us that violence is first of all authoritarian. It begins with this premise: I have the right to control you.

Women's liberation has often been portrayed as a movement intent on encroaching upon or taking power and privilege away from men, as though in some dismal zero-sum game, only one gender at a time could be free and powerful. But we are free together or slaves together. Surely the mindset of those who think they need to win, to dominate, to punish, to reign supreme must be terrible and far from free, and giving up this unachievable pursuit would be liberatory.

I felt hemmed in, hunted. Over and over women and girls were attacked, not for what they'd done, but because they were at hand when a man wished to. To punish is the word that comes to mind but for what might linger as a question. Not for who, but for what they were, we were. But really for who he was, a man who had the desire and believed he had the right to harm women. To demonstrate that his power was as boundless as her powerlessness.

Surely the mindset of those who think they need to win, to dominate, to punish, to reign supreme must be terrible and far from free, and giving up this unachievable pursuit would be liberatory.

Imperialism [...] also meant that the conquerors themselves regarded and instructed their imperial subjects to regard the colonized countries as the outskirts rather than the center of the world.

The more powerful the perpetrator, the greater is his prerogative to name and define reality, and the more completely his arguments prevail.

violence is first of all authoritarian. It begins with this premise: I have the right to control you.

Of course, women are capable of all sorts of major unpleasantness, and there are violent crimes by women, but the so-called war of the sexes is extraordinarily lopsided when it comes to actual violence.