Quotes About Dominance

One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.

I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.

And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.

CosaNostra Pizza doesn't have any competition. Competition goes against the Mafia ethic.

The people who'd made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story. If their employees came home at day's end with interesting stories to tell, it meant that something had gone wrong: a blackout, a strike, a spree killing. The Powers That Be would not suffer others to be in stories of their own unless they were fake stories that had been made up to motivate them.

there was nothing you couldn't accomplish if you crowded a few tens of millions of peasants together on the best land in the world and then never stopped raping their brains out for a thousand years.

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins. Hiro

Boys, he said, only want to know two things: who is in charge, and what are the rules.

Now we're back in a situation where the people who have the power and the money can get what they want by dictating what the mass of people ought to believe.

Yeah, you know, a monopolist's work is never done. No such thing as a perfect monopoly. Seems like you can never get that last one-tenth of one percent.

I just about got this planet all sewn up." Rife delivers this line with an incredibly sardonic and contemptuous twang, the exaggerated accent of a cowboy who suspects that some Yankee pencilneck is looking down his nose at him.

ultima ratio regum mean?" " 'The Last Argument of Kings

But possession of this psychological high ground is different from a monopoly in any normal sense of that word, because here the dominance has nothing to do with technical performance or price. The old robber-baron monopolies were monopolies because they physically controlled means of production and/or distribution. But in the software business, the means of production is hackers typing code, and the means of distribution is the Internet, and no one is claiming that Microsoft controls those.

Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo—which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.