Quotes About Dominance

People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture.

When humans invented inequality and socioeconomic status, they came up with a dominance hierarchy that subordinates like nothing the primate world has ever seen before.

I loved being the best player in the world. There was no pressure staying there.

I feel like big men don't like it when they're getting fronted by smaller guys and they just staying real, real aggressive.

If Alisson stays at Liverpool long enough he could break all the records that myself and Ray Clemence achieved.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I'm the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.

Jordan never stepped out on the court to have a good time. He stepped out there to establish that he was the best.

Whatever steps in the cage against me, I will fight, because I have the belt, I'm No. 1 on the planet, and I want to keep staying here.

Every time he steps on the floor, LeBron has to establish that he's the best. Every year is an opportunity for him to raise his level to the best of the best.

When Leo is on the field, everything turns in favor of Barca. He is five steps above the rest.

The State then uses this monopoly to wield power over the inhabitants of the area and to enjoy the material fruits of that power.

The man who conquered Ireland could be a match for the man who did not conquer Egypt.

The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Where words prevail not, violence prevails; But gold doth more than either of them both.

We think, therefore we should make everyone think what we think.

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

monarchy in every instance is the Popery of government.

It is the pride of kings that throws man kind into confusion.