Quotes About Dominance

The best slave is someone you overpay and who knows it, terrified of losing his status.

the behavior of the total is dictated by the preferences of a minority.

threats of the dagger-by-your-bed variety are even better for bloodless control.

you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

Winner-take-all effects are worsening:

We saw with the minority rule that the intolerant will run over the tolerant;

True and False (hence what we call "belief") play a poor, secondary role in human decisions; it is the payoff from the True and the False that dominates—and it is almost always asymmetric, with one consequence much bigger than the other

I later got some plausible explanation from evolutionary psychology, which claims that such physical manifestations of one's performance in life, just like an animal's dominant condition, can be used for signaling: It makes the winners seem easily visible, which is efficient in mate selection.

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

Ecco infatti una caratteristica della maggior parte degli uomini: di diventar feroci soltanto perché è in loro potestà fare del male.

Jollity and gloom were contending for an empire.

I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.

Yet all of these accumulated contributions paled before a larger one: he demonstrated how one could assert one's will on the world at the very time when everything seemed to be growing beyond control and beyond comprehension.

he had become the patriarch of horseflesh.

The good thing about being explosive is that no one can beat you.

Monster only had the power that you gave them

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

Permission is the bloated corpse of freedom.

Nature is the sum of all selfishness, forcing each and every species to viciously claw its way to survival by snuffing others in the suffocating mire of history. I

And in this way, we shall make our scythedom great once more.

Hace tiempo descubrí que, si construyes un arenero alrededor de un niño dominante y permites que ese niño lo presida, los adultos pueden dedicarse al trabajo de verdad.

Damisch Control

Silence was all it took to turn servitude into superiority. The servant became the master, and the world became all about pleasing the Thunderhead.

She could beat him at everything. Even at losing.