Quotes About Dominance

Toadvine was four steps above him and when he kicked him he caught him in the throat.

Might does not make right, said Irving.

only the powerful were hated, and that was what he was meant to be in this world. Powerful.

Er war schon lange der Beste.

This is the hour of pride and power, talon and tush and claw.

Finally, one would have to put all this information together to shape a continuum, a narrative in which the House of Bush and the House of Saud dominated the world stage together in one era after another. Having done so, one would come to a singular inescapable conclusion: namely, that, horrifying as it sounds, the secret relationship between these two great families helped to trigger the Age of Terror and give rise to the tragedy of 9/11.

The Damall liked to see Nikol being angry and not being able to do anything about it. The Damall liked to see Nikol being afraid and being ashamed.

What kind of a world was it where in order to be on top you had to push others under — as if you were pushing heads down underwater — and hold them there until they drowned, and then you could be on top.

You, and rule!" she said. "You don't rule, don't flatter yourself. You have only got more than your share of the money, and make people work for you for two pounds a week, or threaten them with starvation.

You, and rule!" she said. "You don't rule, don't flatter yourself. You have only got more than your share of the money, and make people work for you for two pounds a week, or threaten them with starvation. Rule! What do you give forth of rule? Why, you're dried up! You only bully with your money

Certainly she could take him without giving herself into his power. Rather she could use this sex thing to have power over him.

could feel the male in him, something cold and triumphant

why would white dudes want to change things when they held all the cards?

The narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery.

America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.

He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe, Joanna Hoffman said. It's a common trait in people who are charismatic and know how to manipulate people. Knowing that he can crush you makes you feel weakened and eager for his approval, so then he can elevate you and put you on a pedestal and own you.

Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation.

Sometimes it's nice to be in the hands of a control freak.

Each period is dominated by a mood, with the result that most men fail to see the tyrant who rules over them.

I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm willing to die no one can master me.

They want to hold on to you and your people. They have isolated the ones who might grow powerful and overthrow their debauched reign.

The person who controls history controls their fate. The man who can tell you what happened, or did not happen, is lord and master of all he surveys.

The essence of white power is that it is exercised over black peoples - whether or not [black peoples] are minority of majority, whether it was a country belonging originally to whites or to blacks. It is exercised in such a way that black people have no share in that power and are, therefore, denied any say in their own destinies.

Thereby, a new set of social relations—that of landlord and serf—replaced the old relations of slavemaster and slave.