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Quotes About Dominance

We could not strike back, for we were starving; and it is the way of the world that when one man feeds another he is that man's master.
~ Jack London
All de tam I watch dat Buck I know for sure. Lissen: some dam fine day heem get mad lak hell an' den heem chew dat Spitz all up an' spit heem out on de snow. Sure. I know." From then on it was war between them. Spitz
~ Jack London
A supremacia de determinada classe só pode impor-se por via da degradação das outras classes sociais.
~ Jack London
Again and again, as he looked at each brutal performance, the lesson was driven home to Buck: a man with a club was a lawgiver, a master to be obeyed, though not necessarily conciliated
~ Jack London
You are one with a crowd of men who have made what they call a government, who are masters of all the other men, and who eat the food the other men get and would like to eat themselves.
~ Jack London
For Beauty Smith was cruel in the way that cowards are cruel. Cringing and snivelling himself before the blows or angry speech of a man, he revenged himself, in turn, upon creatures weaker than he.
~ Jack London
John Stuart Mill, in his essay, ON LIBERTY, wrote: Wherever there is an ascendant class, a large portion of the morality emanates from its class interests and its class feelings of superiority.
~ Jack London
Había que dominar o ser dominado; y la piedad era una señal de debilidad. En la vida primitiva no existía. Se confundía piedad con temor y ello acarreaba la muerte. Matar o morir, comer o ser comido: tal era la ley; y Buck obedecía a aquel mandato que surgía de las profundidades del tiempo.
~ Jack London
I oto zew doszedÅ' Bucka, nieomylny, zdobyty, prawdziwy. SiadÅ' wiÄ™c równie? i równie? zawyÅ'.
~ Jack London
Kelimeyi gördünüz mü, ÅŸahane kelimeyi: İktidar! Tanr? deÄŸil, zenginlik deÄŸil, iktidar! Bunu al?n ve dilinizde tüy bitinceye kadar tekrar edin: İktidar!
~ Jack London
He had lessoned from Spitz, and from the chief fighting dogs of the police and mail, and knew there was no middle course. He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial life.
~ Jack London
Buck did not cry out. He did not check himself, but drove in upon Spitz, shoulder to shoulder, so hard that he missed the throat. They rolled over and over in the powdery snow. Spitz gained his feet almost as though he had not been overthrown, slashing Buck down the shoulder and leaping clear. Twice his teeth clipped together, like the steel jaws of a trap, as he backed away for better footing, with lean and lifting lips that writhed and snarled.
~ Jack London
In dim ways he recognised in man the animal that had fought itself to primacy over the other animals of the Wild.
~ Jack London
He must master or be mastered;
~ Jack London
He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial lite. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of times he obeyed.
~ Jack London
superior air, gained his feet, and walked over to White Fang. He talked soothingly to him, but not for long, then slowly put out his hand, rested it on White Fang's head, and resumed the interrupted
~ Jack London
He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way to Death.
~ Jack London
I dare not kill you. But I can break more bones, and you will walk sideways like a crab.
~ Jack Vance
Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy. Triumph
~ Jack Weatherford
Bukhara. Before the year ended, the Mongols had
~ Jack Weatherford
the greatest joy a man can know is to conquer his enemies and drive them before him. To ride their horses and take away their possessions. To see the faces of those who were dear to them bedewed
~ Jack Weatherford
In twenty-five years, the Mongol army subjugated more lands and people than the Romans had conquered in four hundred years. Genghis Khan, together with his sons and grandsons, conquered the most densely populated civilizations of the thirteenth century. Whether measured by the total number of people defeated, the sum of the countries annexed, or by the total area occupied, Genghis Khan conquered more than twice as much as any other man in history
~ Jack Weatherford
drowned in the sea of annihilation." Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.
~ Jack Weatherford
a multitude destitute of will and of the means of resistance, but profitable in the utmost degree to the exchequer.
~ Jacob Burckhardt