Quotes About Dominance

It is the art of creating power.

The core proposition was that a minority would always rule over a majority.

Who says organization, says oligarchy." This was Michels's "iron law.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coin itself.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform.

YOU WILL REIGN IN TERROR WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT! To do otherwise would make a laughing stock of us both.

You learn how to coerce people to do your bidding . . . willingly.

In his experience, only children greeted the sight of a police officer with enthusiasm and pleasure. Children like order and security. Most adults do too, but those feelings are complicated by issues of ego, dominance, control, status, and sex, all of which come bubbling up from the bog of the unconscious when you are confronted with a man with the power to take your freedom or your life.

This is the look Winners have constantly. They stand with assurance. They move with confidence. They smile softly with pride. No doubt about it! Good posture symbolizes you are a man or woman who is used to being on top.

I know what is going on," said Sir. "I am the Boss! Of course I know!

Why does anyone have a lot of rules? So they can boss people around, I guess.

Truth can be dispensed with when fantasy dominates. p.63

When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

Every cook must learn to rule the State.

The majority of the so-called great powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole series of small and weak peoples. And the imperialist war is nothing other than a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty.

Since he's the leader of the gang, he gets to say what the

power aims to produce subjects defined (and, correlatively, made visible and controlled) by particular desires.

But what is the core of the political? Men killing men on the largest scale in broad daylight and with the greatest serenity.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.