Quotes About Dominance

He who controls the present, controls the pen that records the past and thus is the owner of the brush that paints the future.

In the world of boys and men you're either a winner or a loser, one up or one down in control or controlled, man enough or a girl.

a single outburst does not produce a difficult relational environment. It is only when a parent [or anyone] repeatedly and regularly uses anger to close conversations, in the broadest sense of 'conversation,' that a dilemma is framed. When a parent [or partner] uses anger or the threat of anger to dominate the emotional atmosphere, then even potentially good conversations with them lose spontaneity, openness and honesty.

Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like, playing quarterback on that team. It was a great ride.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

There are three whose life is no life: he who lives at another?s table; he whose wife domineers over him; and he who suffers bodily affliction.

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.

In principle everyone, however powerful, is an object.

Toda "cultura pura" tem causado mal-estar aos porta-vozes do poder

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

The Lionheart had arrived.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks.

Fire is the best of servants; but what a master!

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall.

You have to try and take games by the scruff of the neck... you can't mollycoddle everyone.

The heavyweight division needs me.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

To be white in America is to have the confidence to say, without a second thought: this space, this neighborhood, this city, this county, this country is mine.

I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem, in Brooklyn... Those neighborhoods were, in those years, dominated by mafia families. You knew it and you felt it, you know?

I'm confident and when you have power like me, it relaxes your nerves.