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Quotes About Dominance

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.
~ Oliver North, Counterfeit Lies
Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future.
~ Lionel Suggs
When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.
~ Michelle Templet
In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor." James Franck, The Manhattan Project neatly summarize the atmic bomb.
~ James Franck
Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
~ Marquis de Acerba
Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.
~ Robert Ardrey
(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes but by blood and iron.
~ Otto von Bismarck
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
~ Mae West
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
~ Phaedrus
It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
~ Otto von Bismarck
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
~ Leon Trotsky
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
~ Tacitus
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
~ C. S. Lewis
No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
~ Seneca the Younger
The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.
~ Lynne Tillman
We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.
~ Thomas Jefferson
You forget who submits, Eva," he said gruffly. "I've given up control for you. I've bent and adjusted for you. I'll do anything to keep you and make you happy. But I can't be tamed or topped. Don't mistake indulgence for weakness.
~ Sylvia Day
Judged by accepted canons of statecraft, the white man towered the indisputable master of the planet.
~ T. Lothrop Stoddard
For four hundred years the white man had added continent to continent in his imperial progress, equipped with resistless sea-power and armed with a mechanical superiority that crushed down all local efforts at resistance. In time, therefore, the colored races accorded to white supremacy a fatalistic acquiescence, and, though never loved, the white man was usually respected and universally feared. During
~ T. Lothrop Stoddard
Murder is the thoroughbred stable. Murder is a shine and a dazzle, a smooth ripple like honed muscle, take your breath away. Murder is a brand on your arm, like an elite army unit's, like a gladiator's, saying for all your life: One of us. The finest.
~ Tana French
Most people don't care who's in charge as long as someone is.
~ Tanya Huff
Two natures beat within my breast The one is foul, the one is blessed The one I love, the one I hate. The one I feed will dominate. -Anonymous
~ Tara Leigh Cobble