Quotes About Dominance

Losers can only flourish until a dominant species appears

Within twelve hours they had pulled mankind's teeth. Then the hunting began.

En efecto, fue un macho beta sumamente habilidoso quien descubrió el fuego, aunque, como era de esperar, un macho alfa se lo arrebatara casi enseguida (los alfa fracasaron en el descubrimiento del fuego, pero, como no entendían que no había que agarrar el palo por el lado caliente y anaranjado, se les atribuye en cambio la invención de la quemadura de tercer grado).

The Beta Male is seldom the strongest or the fastest, but because he can anticipate danger, he far outnumbers his Alpha Male competition. The

The world is led by Alpha Males, but the machinery of the world turns on the bearings of the Beta Male.

Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.

As they spread out their blankets, Saphira commented with satisfaction, We are becoming more powerful, Eragon, both of us. Soon no one will be able to stand in our way. Yes, but which way shall we choose? Whichever one we want, she said smugly, settling down for the night.

Thus international law typically provided protection for the powerful and ruthless rather than for their victims.

asymmetric whoop-ass

To be master or servant within an hour, this is the course of temporal power.

Your fancy book learnin' should've thaught you that the strong do what they want and the weak endure what they must. Now bring me your finest meats and cheeses and be quick about it!

Social systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his door and then turn you away, rather his home address is hard to find. The government handcuffs you so they don't have to shoot you trying to escape. And so on.

For the male who dominates and writes, or by writing dominates, the woman has always been portrayed with hostility from the earliest times. Let us not be deceived by angelic descriptions of women. On the contrary, precisely because great literature is dominated by sweet, gentle creatures, the world of satire—which is that of the popular imagination—continually demonizes the woman, from antiquity, through the Middle Ages, and up to modern times.

Classical mythology is a catalogue of indescribable cruelty: [...] It is a world dominated by evil, where even the most beautiful beings carry out atrocities.

Duro oficio el del inquisidor, tiene que golpear a los más débiles, y cuando mayor es su debilidad.

Quando reina a anarquia, qualquer um pode se fazer rei.

I do not ask much, only Total Power

todo acto de apropiación implica una dosis de violencia

Such was the new technique for the conquest of power. Fool those who were foolable, buy those who were buyable, and kill the rest.

Savages were meant to be subdued and put to work—what good were they otherwise, to themselves or anybody else? When Il Duce's sons dropped mustard gas from airplanes among barefooted black soldiers and thus put them to rout, they were proving themselves superior beings

For ten years Adi Schicklgruber had been living in a court; which meant that he had surrounded himself with persons who would tell him what he wanted to hear and nothing else. It was surely not up to Lanny to change that regimen.

These were the men of money, masters of the life of France. They told the workers where to live and what work to do; they told the editors what to publish, and thus told the French public what to believe; they told the politicians how to vote, which meant telling the police whom to arrest and the soldiers whom to shoot.

What chance does the democratic tradition stand when its enemies control ninety per cent of the press and the radio and the money—plus all of the weapons? I tell you, the fellows who run the National Association of Manufacturers could take over the government of this country in twenty-four hours if ever they get mad enough to try it. And believe me, they're going to get madder every hour in the economic crisis that will come after this war.

This book has only modest goals: to remind us that success is only one of the outcomes of our ceaseless quest for invention; that failure can follow initial acceptance; that the bold dreams of market dominance may remain unrealized; and that even after generations of (sometimes intensifying) efforts, we may not be any closer to the commercial applications first envisaged decades ago. And what is true about the past is, despite recent claims to the contrary, likely to be repeated in the future.