Quotes About Dominance

The Strong do what they Can, and the Weak Suffer what they Must.

We'll start a whole new human race," Hoop quipped. "With respect, Hoop, I believe Ripley would eat you alive.

Shakeouts typically mark the point at which an ascendant technology is ready to take its place at center stage. The pretenders are given the bum's

Power is the capacity to turn people into money.

After all, there's no shape or image in modern culture to match that of the gun. Nothing else has its universal authority or saving promise

What whites have rarely had to think about—because being the dominant group, we are so used to having our will done, with a little effort at least—is that maybe the point is not victory, however much we all wish to see justice attained and injustice routed. Maybe our redemption comes from the struggle itself. Maybe it is in the effort, the striving for equality and freedom that we become human.

They beat hell out of you for any reason or no reason. It's the greatest pleasure of their lives.

People of authority love capes.

All who hold positions of power fear or hate someone. Or something." Arihnda

They are a terrible enemy, Eli," Vah'nya said. "Your Empire—your former Empire—forces its will on its slaves through soldiers and weapons and warships. But the Grysks…three can command a nation. A hundred can rule an entire world. Billions of beings, their hearts and souls broken, ready to fight and die at the order of a handful of aliens. No resistance, no revolt, no dissent, no hope.

A man, I'd sometimes thought, who would apologize for the inconvenience as he broke your neck.

All who hold positions of power fear or hate someone.

That's the problem with men with money. They think they can do anything they want and get away with it.

No one has ever stood atop the heavens before. Not you…or I…or even the gods. But the unbearable vacancy of heaven's throne ends now. From now on…I will stand at the top.

men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time.

They loved their country largely because they controlled it.

Jack, the world is full of people who can only feel big by making other people look small, and the bigger the target, the better they feel about it.

It was so strange, how much fear there was in the world, and the most fearful of all were so often those who held the power in their hands.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other people's decisions for them?

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.

Writing of, about, and within a world committed to racial dominances without employing the linguistic strategies that supported it seemed to me the most urgent, fruitful, challenging work a writer could take on.

recevoir le pouvoir de dominer autrui est chose difficile ; s'emparer de force de ce pouvoir est chose erronée ; donner ce pouvoir sur soi-même à autrui est chose mauvaise.

Tolstoy was wrong. Kings are not the slaves of history. History is the slave of kings.

Easy, I thought. Everything is so easy for them. They think they own the world.