Quotes About Dominance

Criticism is the fountainhead of control.

The corporate and financial worlds want to make the rules but they certainly do not want to be seen making them, or governing anyone.

If the lion knew his true strength it were hard for any man rule him.

My mother had a dog once. She used to make it jump through a burning hoop to prove its devotion to her, until she found my father did it better. He jumped through that hoop for over six years. When he finally got tired of performing for her amusement he killed her. And that's what makes men such interesting pets, Markham - you never know when they're going to turn and bite.

The ruling of men was a dirty business—

The only men ruthless enough to fight against tyranny were themselves inclined to it.

Something I have never mastered. Something I've never even tried to master.

She'd also prepared by wearing her hair combed back severely from her face, and putting on her stiffest, highestcollared business suit. She all but carried a riding crop.

Well, I don't have much competition here." "You don't have much competition anywhere.

I don't care if you got knocked up. I can still rip your throat out

Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol's way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.

We control it," he said quietly. "If the war's impossible to end, then we have to control it indefinitely. Just as we do now. With the Peacekeepers occupying the districts, with strict laws, and with reminders of who's in charge, like the Hunger Games. In any scenario, it's preferable to have the upper hand, to be the victor rather than the defeated.

I killed you. And you. And you.

The ability to control things. Yes, that was what he'd loved best of all.

However much President Snow may hate me, this Capitol audience is mine.

Stone conquers people every time.

In any scenario, it's preferable to have the upper hand, to be the victor rather than the defeated.

Rocks beat human, always.

Stenen besegrar alltid människan (s. 176).

In some ways, District 13 is even more controlling than the Capitol.

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. —C. S. Lewis

I realize that's the way, the way of selfish people. They want to control everyone else, but when it's them, they want their own rules.

There was no end to the inventiveness of men when their goal was to prove their mastery. It