Quotes About Dominance

I could kill you in a dozen different ways without breaking a sweat. Do not think to dictate my comings and goings.

the name of the husband is one of the strongest insignia of patriarchal power

up most of the room. There

Fear can be used in all sorts of ways to control people, and that's what he's done." They took a few

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

Politics] is always a means of conquering others and exercising power over them.

the oppressive government of the rich.

It was language, which tyrannizes us all

Intimida a ese fanfarrón timador, llamado Azar, Y comanda la tirana circunstancia Sin corona, y rellena el lugar de un sirviente.

Many men are slaves because one is an oppressor; let us hate the oppressor. Now, however, there is amongst an increasing few a tendency to reverse this judgment, and to say, One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. When everyone spills their guts, they lose their sight. The one who holds on to this very precious resource becomes the one-eyed man, the king.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. --The Price of the Ticket, "No Name in the Street" (1972; repr. 1985)     The

Furthermore, it is now absolutely clear that white people are a minority in the world—so severe a minority that they now look rather more like an invention—and that they cannot possibly hope to rule it any longer. If this is so, why is it not also possible that they achieved their original dominance by stealth and cunning and bloodshed and in opposition to the will of Heaven, and not, as they claim, by Heaven's will?

How can one... dream of power in any other terms than in the symbols of power?

That all men were like this, their thoughts rose no higher, and they lived only to gratify on the bodies of women their brutal and humiliating needs.

I had discovered, through ugly experience, what they were like when they held the power and what they were like when you held the power.

They had the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law—in a word, power.

all men were like this, their thoughts rose no higher, and they lived only to gratify on the bodies of women their brutal and humiliating needs. One

But for power truly to feel itself menaced, it must somehow sense itself in the presence of another power—or, more accurately, an energy—which it has not known how to define and therefore does not really know how to control.

He had power over her not because she was free but because she was guilty. To enforce his power over her he had only to keep her guilt awake.

It is an understanding of what you can be the best at. The distinction is absolutely crucial.

Credo che il periodo che intercorre tra la prima apparizione degli stati e la loro egemonia sui popoli non statali, per i barbari abbia rappresentato una sorta di «età dell'oro» nel senso che, sotto molti aspetti, era «meglio» essere un barbaro a causa dell'esistenza degli stati, a patto che questi stati non fossero troppo forti.

every major successful revolution ended by creating a state more powerful than the one it overthrew, a state that in turn was able to extract more resources from and exercise more control over the very populations it was designed to serve.

You live by the lash and you'll die by it.