Quotes About Dominance

The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called hegemonic war.

Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

War is the father and king of all.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

War knows no law except that of might.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.

It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.

war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Veni vidi vici. (I came I saw I conquered.)

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood

In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor.

For no one makes aggresive war unless he excepts to win

They don't want a princess. They want a war queen.

Superior might does not guarantee success, especially in a war where political considerations dominate.

the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and one will ever save you.

But it's natural for men to compete against each other. We've been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them.

Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation.